La Residence D’angkor… a place where you’d like to hang your sunhat Barbara Kingstone May 20, 2016 Asia, Cambodia, Destinations, Feature, Hotels Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t been to La Residence d’Angkor in Siem Reap Cambodia. What awaits you is the heady pleasure of a well serviced, enchanting newish true Cambodian Khmer-styled hotel in...
Albano, Italy, is a spa with a difference. Barbara Kingstone May 16, 2016 Europe, Health Travel, Indulgences, Italy, Resorts, 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 nevertheless, no Bad,...
All Aboard the Toy Train Barbara Kingstone April 3, 2016 Asia, Feature, India, India The author on the Toy Train Friendly seat companions Shilong, the start point of the Toy Train India changes people, I was once told by a friend from India. Even though I had...
The Eastern & Oriental Express is now checked off my ‘bucket list’. Been there, done that and what a great experience Barbara Kingstone April 2, 2016 Asia, Laos, Thailand If you have to board a plane just past midnight to arrive at your destination double digit hours later at a destination with a huge time difference, what better place to regain your stamina and equilibrium...
Padua, Italy. Forget the stunning Italians. There’s so much to learn from our ‘Ruskie’ friends. Barbara Kingstone February 15, 2016 Europe, Italy, Travel Tips I thought I was fairly sophisticated. So there I was at a famed spa and splendid hotel The Grand Thermal Hotel,(see article on www.indulgedtraveler.com and barbara’s baggage blog) in Abano,...
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 Destinations, 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 Destinations, 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...
