I was recently invited to visit the IBGM Gem and Jewelry Design Show in Brazil, and am very much looking forward to my first trip back to Sao Paolo in seven years. Last time I had a ten-month-old baby and was visiting friends and family. While a terrific trip full of home made meals and riodizios, my mobility was somewhat limited. This time I’m on my own and super excited about meeting some amazing designers, sipping a caipirinha at Baretto at the Hotel Fasano, and picking up some prints by Ramon Martins and Derlon Almeida at Choque Cultural. Wall candy below…
Ramon Martins
Ramon Martins
Ramon Martins
Ramon Martins
Ramon Martins
Derlon Almeida
Derlon Almeida
Ramon Martins
Spreepark was an amusement park in the former East Berlin opened in 1961. Now abandoned after a bankruptcy and the former owner in a Peruvian prison for trying to smuggle cocaine from Peru to Germany in the masts of the Flying Carpet ride, all that’s left are carcasses of the park’s old attractions. What I’d do for one of those swans. The final scene from the 2011 film Hanna was filmed here.
Interiors and Exteriors of madman Ludwig II‘s Neuschwanstein and Lindenhof Castles in Bavaria. Yes, these places exist.
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I can so relate to these pics by West Philly-based photographer Isaac Schell. My favorites are the storefront churches, making the best of it.
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I love Central America. I’ve traveled through Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and parts of Nicaragua for weeks at a time, mesmerized by these half-Spaniards / half-Indians that carry some of the same DNA I do. There is something so magically forgotten about this little pocket of the world that is right under our noses.
My maternal family has a long history in Central America… My Uncle was Secretary of State in Honduras as well as the Honduran Ambassador to the UN, and is the current head Magistrate of the Central American International Court. My Grandmother was the reigning Miss Central America before her death. So I am always interested in exploring new parts of this little strip of land that connects the massive Americas, and me to a piece of my ancestry. Get the whole story »
Just returned from the legendary 127 Sale… a recap of the adventure HERE & pics after the jump…
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Read my new article for the Huffington Post HERE.
Check out of Hotel Tangerina after obsessing over the coolest wall clock / calendar I have ever seen. Head to station to catch express to Casablanca. Haggle with taxi driver about the fare. He wants to charge us a 50dh flat fee (illegal) and we want him to use the meter. He reluctantly agrees and the ride is 18dh. Almost miss train but make it by the skin of our teeth after Cristina puts the guy who tried to cut her in line in his place (the wonders of cueing are lost on most Moroccans.)
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Wake up in Fez and go downstairs to tell the riad host that we’re headed to Tangier a day early. She tells me we have to pay for the duration of the stay because they “turned down other potential guests.” I look around at the half-empty riad and she reads my mind. (I forget haggling is a sport even in the most sophisticated of settings here) We agree on 1/3 of the unpaid night after some good natured back-and-forth…
We’re getting dangerously close to our budget limit now that we’re hitting the tail end of our trip. Think about how to cut back. Decide all food must go. Shopping and cocktails should be fine.
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