An island far for reality and as private as you would like, but still with great activities Barbara Kingstone October 20, 2020 Africa, Destinations, Islands, Kenya, South Pacific While we await a vaccine for this dreaded and dreadful virus, we should follow the dictates by wearing a mask, keeping the two meters distance and continue to dream about future and exotic destinations. In...
Cook Islands, a smudge in the middle of the South Pacific. Barbara Kingstone August 15, 2020 Destinations, Islands, South Pacific I wish I had a crystal ball to know when we can travel again, but even the medical mavens can't predict the end of COVID-19. Lock-down hasn't been easy but dreaming of our next destination gives us hope, so...
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,...
