by Suzanne Dunning Tucked away on a side street off of Berlin’s elegant Kurfürstendamm boulevard—famed for its shopping, museums, and theaters—the Bleibtreu is a chic oasis in Germany’s thriving capital city. The Bleibtreu is the embodiment of restrained elegance and attention to detail. Architect Herbert Jakob Weinand designed the Bleibtreu with a unique blend of…
by Ann Mills My daughter and I spent a wonderful day and night in San Francisco to celebrate my birthday and experience some major pampering with the W Hotel’s fabulous Bliss Girls Getaway. The hotel is centrally located, right on the corner of Howard and Third streets. From the time we arrived until we left…
by Sharon Spence I dream of hiking on the moon. Until I get there though, scrambling among gorgeous red and gold sandstone cliffs will do quite nicely. As a guest at Red Mountain Spa, I’m one of twenty hikers enjoying this challenging morning workout in nearby Snow Canyon State Park. “Utah is a geological fantasyland,”…
At the end of a long afternoon of wine tasting in Napa Valley, I feel as light headed as a hot air balloon riding on the warm currents. As much as I love a good Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, I think I overdid it: all I want to do now is rest and detox….
You can tell a lot about a place by shopping in it. Are the prices high? Are they fixed? Or, like China, is there some magical wiggle room? Because when you can haggle, the possibilities open up like orange blossoms, and soon shopping becomes something more than just a thing about things. When you can…
As I walk past the tennis courts of Sharon Meadow in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, I hear the familiar sounds of this oasis in the city. The dimmed honking of car horns, screeching of buses, and wailing of sirens drift through the trees, joining the grunts of enthusiastic tennis players and cries of children…