Growing up in the suburbs of Maryland, I’d always felt like I was missing something. I’d spend hours in my room creating mood boards of the life I wanted – one with beaches, a healthy lifestyle and lots of hiking.…
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Discovering Missed Connections at Tri Resort in Sri Lanka
I’d had enough. In an era where connections are omnipresent through followers, matches and likes, I had never felt more disconnected. My ‘over-time’, as I called it, marketing job in LA had diluted my self awareness, and I was having…
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Exploring Cartagena’s ‘Coolest’ Neighborhood As An Outsider
We had spent so much time being romanced by the flower laden balconies and the saturated street colours within the 400-year-old, walled city of Cartagena, Colombia, that we had almost forgotten there was anywhere else to explore. I had read that Getsemani was worth visiting. It was a neighbourhood just outside the walled city with a dark and complicated past as a former host to drug trades and sex trafficking. With Colombia’s modern political shift towards stability, greater economic security, a
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Where This Stylish NET-A-PORTER Publicist Takes Her Global Meetings
Beth Newman is one of those people you might unfollow on Instagram out of jealousy, simply because her life is not only fabulous, to use a trite word, but also because it appears to be truly joyful. It would be…
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Planning a Mother-Daughter Trip to Paris? Stay at the Hotel Providence
My 35th birthday is looming large ahead of me when my parents happen to call one February night. (Okay, it’s February 14th AKA Valentine’s Day, and they are clearly calling to ensure that I, a single lady, haven’t offed myself).…
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Experience Meal Nirvana at Gabriela Cámara’s Contramar, Mexico City
The combination of the elevation (7,200 feet above sea level) and constant mezcal hangover resulted in some hazy memories of Mexico City. But, my meal at Contramar remains as vivid as the saturated blues of Frida Kahlo’s garden walls. I…
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Check in: The Cape, a Thompson Hotel, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Originally published by our Editor-In-Chief, Drea Sobieski as an anonymous review for Smith Hotels. Cabo San Lucas has a reputation for being crowded, tawdry and wild. The Cape, however, could not be further from this portrayal, despite its proximity to…
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Meet the Parisian Hoteliers Running a Luxury Riad in Marrakech
Light hits the Riad Jardin Secret with a kind of ephemeral magic. It filters through the open roof terrace down to the first-floor lobby, illuminating the lush tropical garden growing as tall as the rafters allow, right up to the…
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Check In: The London Hotel, West Hollywood at Beverly Hills
Some hotels were made for escaping in, others for sleeping in, and a few for sneaking around in. In Los Angeles, hotels are are meant to be seen in. The outlook is different here in the city of angels. Not only are hotels marketing to the city’s influx of…
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Check In: Song Saa Private Island, Koh Rong, Cambodia
The 27 hour journey from Los Angeles to Song Saa Private Island was a small, inconsequential price for admittance to paradise. It began with a red eye from Los Angeles to London where I settled for a few days before making…
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