Author Barbara Kingstone

I’ve become quite blasé about jewelry. There’s a sameness to many pieces or reinterpreted —the same old, same old.  However, my heart began to pulsate when I saw Orsa Maggiore...

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) welcomed 6.2 million passengers in May 2019, an increase of 1.4 percent year-on-year. The growth rate would have been one percentage point higher, if FRA had not been affected by a...

While in India, again in New Delhi, there’s the elegant, old but new again, The Imperial Hotel. It reminds me of a large Maharani’s residence since the old ‘dame’s’ facelift has proven...

ITC MAURYA HOTEL in New Delhi, over the years I have stayed here on several occasions. From my very first stay, I realized this is one of the finest hotel chains. Service is what I look for as well, of...

It wasn't just Drake who made Toronto famous. It had become a major destination before the rap' icon who is from chic mid city, Toronto's, Forest Hills. He also has made Toronto into a hip destination....

On my very first trip to India, while in Jaipur, (Rajasthan) my guide asked if I’d like to see an interesting hotel in Udaipur. So on one of those highways where you either hide under a blanket or pray for...

I couldn’t imagine that the large typical enclosed Indian market place, the old New Market, was where I would find the head of the Jewish community in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) India. But that’s...

“INDIA  changes people” wrote Ruth Prawar Jhabvala noted novelist. (Heat and Dust).   I’ve traveled the world and India is the ultimate experience.  If it’s your first,...

THE IMPERIAL Hotel, Delhi, India ; the old dowager has had the most marvellous facelift and is one of the most glorious and gracious hotels in Delhi.   There was a time in Delhi, India, when The...

Tel Aviv. An Oasis in the Desert. 2019 is the 100 year anniversary of the Bauhaus architecture movement.