Keeping the Miracle in Mind at Tel Aviv’s Sheraton Hotel & Towers

Keeping the Miracle in Mind at Tel Aviv’s Sheraton Hotel & Towers

by Harvey Frommer and Myrna Katz Frommer

There is a Frenchman at the helm of the Sheraton Tel Aviv, and he fits it (to coin a cliché) like a glove. The elegant Jean-Louis Ripoche was born in Paris, his family comes from the Loire Valley, and he brings to the property an élan and savoir faire bred of his Gallic roots. At [...]

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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey

The Call of Istanbul (part 1)

by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

It was a bright and beautiful Wednesday in August 2001, the afternoon our first day in Istanbul We emerged from the cool comfort of the gleaming and glamorous Divan Hotel into a high-end neighborhood of late 20th century buildings and crossed a wide boulevard teeming with traffic. On the opposite side, in a municipal park the [...]

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Ortigia, Greece

On An Island In The Most Beautiful City Of Them All: Hotel des Ètrangers et Miramare

by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

“The greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all,” said Cicero, the Roman philosopher. He was speaking of Syracuse, the city along the southeast coast of Sicily founded by the Corinthians in the eighth century B.C. They were followed by the Romans, Arabs, Byzantines, Bourbons, Aragonites, Normans and Swedes, and all have left [...]

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Pierre entrance on 61st St, Central Park in background, NY, New York

The Second Coming of The Pierre

by Joan Scobey

The first Thursday night of every month, 2E, The Pierre’s new bar/lounge named for its address, 2 East 61st St., thrums to the beat of Rumor, a nightclub scene you’d think would be more at home in the East Village than the upper East Side hotel. No, The Pierre hasn’t lost its top drawer status, [...]

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