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. [...]
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THE DIXIE COP: 600 Miles of Yard Sales with My Six Year Old
Read my new article for the Huffington Post HERE.
Day 5: MARRAKECH TO FES… “YOUR OWN LENS”
Wake up to breakfast on the terrace and Chris getting us packed ready to go. Sad to be saying goodbye to our little home in Marrakech and our new friends, but excited to make our way to Fez. He warns us that Fez is much more conservative than Marrakech… While Marrakeck is a true African [...]
Day 4: MARRAKECH… “THE POCKET OF ZIMBABWE”
Wake up to awesome rooftop breakfast of fresh watermelon and prepare for our first traditional hamam treatment in our riad. Go downstairs to the impeccably restored 17th century marble and mosaic hamam, stripped down to nothing, and were laid down naked on warm wooden benches. Covered from head to toe in black Argan oil paste [...]
Day 1: NY – CASABLANCA – MARRAKECH
Plane lands in Casablanca and after lengthy immigration line we’re escorted outside to wait for the shuttle bus which will apparently take us to the terminal where we’re to catch our train to Marrakech. Three buses go by and inexplicably do not stop. Actually one stops. And then it leaves without opening its doors. This [...]
Vanity Case
The hard-sided train case wins first prize for “chicest-yet-most-idiotically-cumbersome-and-unnecessary-female-thing-to-carry”. Ahh… music to my ears… By the way, what ever happened to these? My mom had the most fabulous chalky blue one that she got in the divorce in 1978. It still had my dad’s initials engraved on it (which were the same as mine) and [...]
Hot Couture
Spent a good bit of time in a Turkish Hamam recently. While I’m quite partial to a dry sauna I have to say the Swedes lose this particular design face-off hands down. Modern or ancient, the Turkish Baths are pretty easy on the eyes. Apparently, at one time the “backscrubbers” who worked in the baths [...]
Dome Mention It
Quite possibly the most beautiful room in new York City, Café Pierre (or the Rotunda) at The Pierre hotel is a perfectly executed exercise in lavishness. The trompe l’oeil murals created by American artist Edward Melcarth play backdrop to the most fabulous afternoon tea this side of the Thames. Have some Earl Gray with a [...]
Mystic Itzá
I first visited Chichén-Itzá about six years ago and cannot fathom why the entire United States is not obsessed with this major mystical and architectural wonder located a mere 1500 miles from downtown New York City. Perhaps it’s the Mayan blood I have running through my veins, but I’m pretty proud that while Europe was [...]
High Fauchon
No this is not a Parisian shoe salon. It’s Fauchon, a luxury food shop on Paris’ Place de la Madeleine in the 8e arrondissement.
