Archive for the ‘Wanderlust’ Category

London Blogging

 
 

You have to read that to the tune of London Calling . . .

At the invitation of a dear friend, I am spending the weekend on an impromptu visit to London. Believe it or not, this is my first time here and I was excited at the prospect of a hop across the pond. I spent most of my day yesterday traveling and, with the time difference, by the time I arrived in London it was nearly nine. We had dinner at a wonderful little French restaurant around the corner from our hotel in Mayfair and then had a cocktail in the hotel lounge. My perfect Manhattan was just that – perfect.

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Posted on 04/10/10
 

Bordeaux Uncorked

 
Bordeaux
 

The Moment is extolling the virtues of Bordeaux’s “unstuffy new profile.”

See the woman at the table on the left, in a white t-shirt with her back to the camera? That’s going to be me as soon as I can get on a plane that will take off in this rain!

Posted on 03/15/10
 

Hotel Veritas

 
Hotel Veritas
 

Whenever I travel, I’m always on the lookout for an interesting, charming, unusual place – boutique hotels being my favorite. So when I learned that we are about to get a new boutique hotel in Harvard Square – Hotel Veritas – I was excited and intrigued. And when I met with the general manager, who is an old friend from my Four Seasons days, and saw the plans for the hotel and all of the beautiful identify artwork they created, I was completely hooked.

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Posted on 02/20/10
 

A Derriere Worth Biting

 
Derriere in the Marais
 

The Sunday New York Times dedicated their ‘Bites’ column to a little restaurant in the Marais called Derriere. As the reviewer says, its charming second-floor fumoir is enticing enough to make even the most stalwart non-smoker want to sneak up for a puff. Arguably Paris’s “most eccentric new restaurant” Derriere “masquerades as a Belleville-meets-Bushwick boho apartment.”

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Posted on 02/08/10