Papeete Barbara Kingstone August 31, 2011 Australasia, Destinations, French Polynesia, Indulgences, Jewellry, Shopping, South Pacific After the quintessential R &R Tahitian experience of blue skies, white sands, palm trees sloping into the aqua water and the thatched roof, peue lined rooms of Hotel Sofitel Ia Ora, I begrudgingly took the...
Bora Bora Barbara Kingstone March 19, 2011 Australasia, Destinations, French Polynesia, Hotels, South Pacific The very first time I visited the island of Bora Bora, (a lagoon enclosed by a coral reef) the most famous in the group of the Society Islands which include Tahiti in the South Pacific, I came away saying I...
Cooking in French Polynesia Barbara Kingstone January 19, 2011 Australasia, Cuisine, Destinations, French Polynesia, South Pacific Perhaps one of the most impressive and also most unusual cooking classes was more like The Flintstone’s version. On the very blue waters of the Pacific Ocean, in the Tuamotu Islands. is one of the most...
Manihi… Black Pearls like the little black dress, is an essential accessory Barbara Kingstone January 19, 2011 Australasia, Destinations, French Polynesia, Indulgences, Jewellry, South Pacific Finding the perfect black pearl It’s unclear how the French Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific came to be populated. However since there were sailors who traversed the ocean blue,...