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The Enchantments of Mas De Torrent in Catalonia’s Baix Emporda
It’s a straight shot out of Barcelona heading north towards France along the AP-7, through the heart of northern Catalonia, one of the oldest and most beautiful sections of Europe. To the west and north, the Pyrenees rise, deep and green; to the east, the beaches and coves of Costa Brava look out to the [...]
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ELBOW BEACH BERMUDA: REDUX AND ANEW Part Two
While there may be fewer dining than spa-treatments options at Elbow Beach, the four outlets provide enough variety in cuisine and ambience to keep one happy and sated for many a day without ever leaving the resort. Blue Point, steps away from the spa and Kids’ Club, serves fresh salads, sandwiches, gourmet pizza, and ice [...]
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ELBOW BEACH BERMUDA: REDUX AND ANEW Part One
A friend, fed up with her job, described the environment as a “Brave New World,” and we knew just what she meant. Ever since Aldous Huxley’s novel was published in 1925, its title has stepped out becoming an ironic label for a future dominated by technology and peopled by spiritless automatons. But in their original [...]
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Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo Icon
The Hotel de Paris, Monaco’s Belle Epoque beauty on the Riviera, piles up accolades like a roulette player on a roll raking in chips, and it’s not by luck or chance. The latest is Condé Nast Traveler’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards, naming it the Number One Hotel in Southern Europe, and that includes all of [...]
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“Hot and Cool” Merge in Marrakech’s Murano Oriental Resort
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer Murano Oriental Resort is cool. The luxe property combines the exotic and hip in a setting of high design. Hot meets cool in Palmeraie, a seemingly endless stretch of desert on the outskirts of Marrakech where palm trees (protected by the king) grow undisturbed — even in the middle [...]
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Keeping the Miracle in Mind at Tel Aviv’s Sheraton Hotel & Towers
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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The Call of Istanbul (part 1)
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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The Call of Istanbul (part 2)
continued… see part 1 The next morning, prompted by memories of the movie where Melina Mercouri plans and nearly succeeds in a fantastic jewel heist, we returned to Sultanahmet to see the actual dagger and jeweled treasures of Topkapi Palace — only to discover the Treasury Room was among those sections closed for renovations. But [...]
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Big News on Miami’s South Beach: The Hotel Breakwater
South Beach, Miami. A starry Monday night, the week of Thanksgiving. Cars cruising up and down Ocean Drive, slowly, taking in the scene. To one side, the beach and the sea –save for waves crashing against the shore, dark and silent. To the other, a line of hotels, deep courtyards between them, live bands or [...]
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Thalassotherapy à la Monte Carlo
The golden stone building in the shadow of Monte-Carlo’s grand Belle Epoque Casino and Hotel deParis looks more like a regal villa than a wellness center, but then, this is Monte-Carlo, where the therapeutic powers of sea water get the same architectural respect as the hotels and casinos of the fabled playground. Monte-Carlo was already [...]
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