A UNESCO World Heritage city, Cartagena is Colombia’s answer to the French Riviera. Barbara Kingstone July 14, 2018 Destinations, Hotels, South America A UNESCO World Heritage city, Cartagena is Colombia’s answer to the French Riviera. Stay in the lovely old and colourful part of the city. The modern buildings of the other Cartagena is complete with...
Bogotá, Colombia Barbara Kingstone May 22, 2018 Colombia, Destinations It’s always good to come home but this time, my trip to Colombia, kept me wishing to stay longer. WHERE TO STAY IN BOGOTÁ First stop. B.O.G. Hotel, (Carrera 11 #867) was purchased 6 years ago and totally...
Mongolia . . . A Sand Safari in a Remarkable, Land-locked Country Barbara Kingstone March 3, 2018 Asia, Feature, Mongolia, Safari, Travel Tips MONGOLIA: EMERGING 3RD WORLD COUNTRY BUT WITH A MOTHERLODE OF HIDDEN WEALTH I had a preconceived idea that this land-locked country surrounded by the Altai Mountain range with undisturbed nature and...
Beautiful Bhutan Barbara Kingstone February 23, 2018 Asia, Bhutan THE MOST PEACEFUL PLACE TO DE-STRESS HIGH IN THE HIMALAYAS There was a time, not that long ago, when tourists knew nothing about the tiny landlocked kingdom of Bhutan located between India's craggy...
mmmMADRID! Barbara Kingstone February 22, 2018 Destinations, Europe, Hotels, Spain OLA MADRID THE MAGNIFICENT! Madrid is a city of plenty. It has at least 44 museums, a history that is daunting, many imperial boulevards, numerous theatres, palaces, outdoor monuments. It’s a...
THE MEMORY LINGERS ON Barbara Kingstone February 12, 2018 Europe, Spas, Turkey Although this newsletter is from an article of a few years ago when the world was safe, it's still a goodie and an adventure that continues to bring laughter and tears as its memory lingers on. My day of...
INDIA IS A COUNTRY THAT EDUCATES AND EXCITES. Barbara Kingstone February 9, 2018 Asia, India On my first trip to India, I was convinced I was going to die. I was to be met by someone from the tourism department in Mumbai but he/she was a no-show. In fact there were few travelers, and mysteriously...
POLAND’S SKULL MUSEUM . . . NO KIDDING EXHIBITING ONLY THE BAD AND THE UGLY . . . NOTHING GOOD Barbara Kingstone February 6, 2018 Europe, Poland As Poland increasingly becomes a travel destination, chances are stops will include the capital, Warsaw plus the ancient city of Krakow, and perhaps Wroclaw (formerly Breslau). MOST UNIQUE JOURNEY FROM...
SWIDNICA, POLAND, SMALL BUT EXQUISITE AND FILLED WITH HISTORY Barbara Kingstone February 6, 2018 Europe, Poland My guide, Renata and I reach the historic, over 700 year old town of Swidnica. As with most Polish cities and towns, there's a main square where we have a typical but far too large Polish lunch of steak,...
KYOTO’S FASCINATION WITH THE HINA DOLLS Barbara Kingstone February 5, 2018 Asia, Japan In a city with 1,600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, hundreds of gardens, and a population of 1.5 million, when I was told that I would be visiting a doll store, I wondered what the planners could have...
