India is incredible. Barbara Kingstone February 12, 2016 Asia, India, Travel Tips India is incredible. I also work for INDIATOR.com and just returned from Delhi where the headquarters is located. INDIATOR has 50 office throughout the sub continent and is a an India-only...
Basking in the glories of Italy’s famed thermal waters. Abano is spa with a difference. Barbara Kingstone February 1, 2016 Europe, Health Travel, Hotels, Italy, Spas In Europe, Bad means good. Most spas have the prefix of Bad for example Baden Baden in Germany or Bad Regaz in Switzerland, or they may have the suffix like Marienbad. But my recent trip (Nov 2015) had...
Lillius turns out to be a fund of information. Barbara Kingstone January 8, 2016 Barbados, Caribbean, Islands Unfortunately, we only started to talk 20 minutes before our Air Canada flight lands in Barbados. It is a day before Good Friday and Lillius tells me there were two really important superstitions or fact I...
How can I say this without giggling, but Las Vegas has become a sophisticated, and funky destination. Barbara Kingstone December 25, 2015 Hotels, Las Vegas, North America, Shopping, United States It has been said that whatever happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas. But think about our new age of technology when you’re in Sin City. What ever happens in L.V stays on FaceBook forever!!...
“On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin’fishes play. An’the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the bay!” From a trip in 2003 Barbara Kingstone December 18, 2015 Asia, China, Cruises, Feature, Myanmar “On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin’fishes play. An’the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the bay!” So wrote poet Rudyard Kipling who spent only forty eight hours in Myanmar...
Mongolia: A Remarkable Land Locked Safari in the Sand Barbara Kingstone October 28, 2015 Asia, Feature, Mongolia, Safari, Travel Tips Even through my dazed , semi-conscious state, after various flights which took 30 hours to get to Chinggis Khaan airport (now New Ulaanbaatar International Airport), in Mongolia, when I looked down from the...
STOLPERSTEINE – STUMBLING BLOCKS. Gunter Demnig’s homage to the Holocaust. Barbara Kingstone October 5, 2015 Europe, Feature, Germany STOLPERSTEINE – STUMBLING BLOCKS. Gunter Demnig’s homage to the Holocaust. By Barbara Kingstone On a cold, dull winter Sunday morning in Cologne Germany, when everything is closed as tight as...
Toronto the good, with a moniker, Hogtown. Barbara Kingstone October 3, 2015 Canada, Feature, North America, Toronto, Travel Tips Hogtown..how would you like to say you live in a place called Hogtown, a moniker that developed in the mid 1800s when the second largest pork processing plant on the continent was in Toronto. Or how about,...
You want luxury shopping. Go no further than Zurich. Barbara Kingstone October 2, 2015 Europe, Indulgences, Jewellry, Shopping, Switzerland FROM MY HOTEL WINDOW What could be a better perch than looking down from my hotel room at the swanky 5 star Savoy en Ville Hotel on the Paradestrasse, considered the best location in Zurich, and from...
The Kempinski Adlon and Bristol Hotels in Berlin is where tradition meets denim. Barbara Kingstone September 7, 2015 Europe, Feature, Germany, Hotels “I hope you’ll like your room,” said one of renowned “Ladies in Red”, an extension of the fine concierge group at the Kempinski Adlon Hotel in Berlin, Germany. Like the room? Love, would be the...
