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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The Art of Slow Travel With Godai Escapes
The word ‘travel‘ implies movement and distance. It conjures impressions of crowded airports, bus and train stations, long lines and landmarks overflowing with transient visitors. As tourists, we have a natural tendency to over-pack our precious holiday time, racing around to…
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How to Help Victims of Natural Disasters in The Caribbean Islands, Mexico, USA
If you are reading this, you are fortunate to have access to wifi, power, and likely, clean drinking water. These are simple luxuries that many residents of Texas, Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Mexico no longer have access to, after the recent…
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Travel Like An Artist With Dorothy Shain
Dorothy Shain has such a warm way of speaking and a soft intentional focus, that a conversation with her can make you feel like you’re the artwork on display – in a really, really good way. It’s likely this same…
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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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Cool-Girl Vacation Style, Decoded
There’s no shortage of impossibly chic women gracing our daily social feeds, constantly reminding us of our wildest sartorial hopes and dreams. In an effort to a) master the vibe of insouciant cool b) actually look effortless while doing it…
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Travel Anxiety? Read This.
It’s an unfortunate yet all-too-common truth that the anxiety surrounding travel can sometimes overcome the joy of exploring the unknown. While some people revel in uncertainty, others feel crippled by it—for those identifying with the latter, there’s a little more…
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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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The Perfect Pair: Wine + Face Masks
After being crammed into a middle seat over a long-haul flight (and denied both armrests), the only thing I want to do when I get to my hotel room is avoid any other sign of human existence, throw on a…
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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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Searching For Azotea in San Miguel
The long dirt road from our temporary accommodation in San Miguel, Mexico, stretched past children playing, an old gas station with people crowding around a standing fan, and a donkey tied to a tree, lost in thought. Once we finally…
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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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