Category: Travel

August 19, 2023

Normandy – Apples, Half-Timbered Houses and Castles

Europe, General, Travel A La Reine Mathilde, Alabaster Coast, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bayeaux, Beaumont-en-Auge, Beuvron-en-Auge, Cabourg, Cabourg Film Festival, Caen, calvados, camembert, Chateau d'Audrieu, Chateau La Cheneviere, Claude Lelouch, D-Day, David Hockney, Deauville, Etretat, Giverny, Honfleur, Maison Drouin, Marcel Proust, Monet house, Mont-Saint-Michel, Mulberry harbour, Normandy apple tart, Normandy castles, Normandy cheese route, Pays d'Auge, Pommeau, Pont l'évêque, Port Winston, Rouen, Suisse Normande, Tarte Normande, The Grand Hôtel Cabourg, Trouville-sur-Mer, Un Homme et Une Femme, William The Conquerer 2 Comments

The D-Day anniversary was celebrated about two months ago. D-Day is the name given to Allied invasion of western Europe launched on June 6, 1944, by the landing of US, […]

May 29, 2023

A Coffee Shop in San José, Costa Rica

General, Latin America, Travel Allegory of the Coffee and the Bananas, Alma de Café, Azotea Calle 7, Barrio Amon, Barrio Escalante, Cafe Miel Costa Rica, Cafeoteca, casado, Costa Rica, empanadas, gallo pinto, Hotel Presidente, Isolina, Mercado Escalante, olla de carne, President Kennedy in San José, Pura Vida, Rávi Gastropub, San José, Silvestre, Soda Tapia, sodas, Tarrazú, The National Theater of Costa Rica No comments

It has been a rainy spring. Although the freshness of spring is felt in its back notes, cloudy and misty weather allows me to write one more post I associate […]

May 14, 2023

Gleneagles, Scotland

General, Travel, UK / Scotland / Ireland Andrew Fairlie, archery, Auchterarder, Blair Castle, Braid house, British School of Falconry, Callendar House, championship golf coures, croquet, Dean village, deer stalking, Drummond Castle Gardens, Dunkeld, Edinburgh, Eiesha Bharti Pasricha, Ennismore, Equestrian Centre, falconry, Ferret School, G8 Summit, Glen Devon, Glendevon, Gleneagles, Gleneagles Townhouse, Glenturret Distillery, gun dogs, Holyrood park, horse riding, Linlithgow Palace, Loch Lomond, off-road driving, Orchil Hills, padel, Perthshire, polo lessons, Princes Street, quoit, River Tay, Riviera in the Highlands, Royal Lochnagar Suite, Royal Mile, Ryder Cup, salmon fishing, Scone Castle, Scotland, Sharan Pasricha, Shooting Fishing School, Solheim Cup, st Andrew Square, Stirling Castle, Strathearn, The Birnam, The Dormy, The Glorious Playground, Water of Leith No comments

It is spring time here in Istanbul but the weather is still not that warm and raining cats and dogs from time to time, as if to let me write […]

January 17, 2023

Paris – Always A Good Idea

Europe, General, Travel A Moveable Feast, Angelina, Avenue George V, Avenue Montaigne, Balzac House, Belleville, Bois de Boulogne, Buttes-Chaumont Park, Café de Flore, Canal Saint-Martin, Champs-Élysées, Châteaux de Versailles, Crazy Horse, Disneyland Paris, Edit Piaf, Eiffel Tower, Emily in Paris, Ernest Hemingway, Fouquet's, Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Île de la Cité, Île Saint-Louis, Jardin du Luxembourg, La Closerie des Lilas, Ladurée, Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, Le Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen, Le Meurice, Les Deux Magots, Louvre Museum, Marais, Midnight in Paris, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Moulin Rouge, Musée Rodin, Notre-Dame Paris, Palais Garnier, Parc de Bagatelle, Parc Monceau, Paris, Picasso Museum, Place de Valois, Place Vendôme, Places des Vosges, Pont Alexandre III, Pont des Artes, Pont Marie, Pont Neuf, Quartier Latin, Robert Doisneau, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Saint-Ouen, Shakespeare and Company, Sorbonne, Tuileries Garden, Victor Hugo No comments

We had the chance to visit Paris as a family at the end of November, just before the Schengen visa of my daughter expired. I am so grateful for this […]

October 23, 2022

Sicily – Inspired by a Marvelous Coffee

Europe, General, Uncategorized Aeolian Islands, Agrigento, arancini, Bar Ingrid, Bay of Mazzaro, Beati Paoli, brioche, Cafe Apollo, Cafe Sicilia, Cafe Spinnato, Cala Rossa, cannoli, Capella Palatina, Caseificio Borderi, Castellano, Cefalu, Cinema Paradiso, Corrado Assenza, Corso Umberto, Cosa Nostra, Cottanera Winery, Egadi Islands, Erice, Etna Wine Route, Favignana, Fontes Episcopi, Forza D'agro, Galleria degli Specchi, Google Camp, granita, Greek Theatre of Taormina, Hiera, Hotel Villa Athena, Il Postino, involtini di melanzane, Italian Journey, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, La Locanda del Postino, Leopard, Levanzo, Lipari, Marettimo, Messina, Mick Jagger Sicily house, Modica, Mount Etna, Mount Stromboli, Noto, Noto Cathedral, Opera dei Pupi, Ortigia island, Osteria dei Vespri, Palazzo Valguarnera Gangi, Palermo, Palermo markets, panella, passeggiata, pasta alla norma, Piazza del Duomo, Portogallo, Prada house Sicily, Ragusa, Ragusa Ibla, Salina, San Domenico Palace, Santa Caterina fort, Savoca, Sciacca, Segesta, Seven Rooms Villadorata, Sicilian puppets, Sicily, Stromboli, Syracuse, Taormina, Teatro Massimo, The Godfather, Trapani, UNESCO, Valley of the Temples, Verdura Resort, Villa Igiea, Villa Romana del Casale, Villa Sant'Andrea, Villa Valguarnera, Visconti, Zu Nillu 2 Comments

I had the intention of writing this post since last spring – when I discovered a marvelous coffee at a Tchibo shop close to my house. On the coffee package […]

August 27, 2022

Carrig Country House, County Kerry & Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way

General, Travel, UK / Scotland / Ireland Alicia Burrell, Annascaul, beach horse riding, Caragh Lake, Carrig Country House, Clew Bay, Corrigan's Mayfair, country house, County Kerry, County Mayo, Dingle, Dingle Peninsula, Emerald Isle, Frank and Mary Slattery, Galway, Glenbeigh, Inch Beach, Ireland, Irish red deer, jaunting cars, Killarney Golf Club, Killarney National Park, Killorglin, Lakeside Restaurant, Limerick, Muckross House, paddle boarding, Portmagee, Puck Fair, Richard Corrigan, Ring of Kerry, Ross Castle, Rossbeigh Beach, Skellig Micheal, Slea Head, Sligo, South Pole Inn, Strand Street, Tom Crean, UNESCO, Victorian house, Virginia Park Lodge, white water kayaking, Wild Atlantic Way, Yeats No comments

Isn’t a glimpse at the photo above is very soothing? – which I thought so and sat down to write this post. It is one of the photos of the […]

May 27, 2022

Bethlen Estates and Castle – Transylvania

Europe, General, Travel bear watching, Bethlen Castle, Bethlen Estates, Biertan, bison, Bram Stoker, Bran Castle, brown bears, Caretaker's Huse, Carpathian bear, Carpathian Mountains, Count Janos Bethlen Manor House, Count Miklos Bethlen, Cris, Dacre Stoker, Depner House, Dracula, Dracula the Undead, Dracula's Castle, Gladys Bethlen, gourmet picnic, heliskiing, home-made brandies, horse carriage rides, Hotel Transylvania, Kitchen Barn, lynxes, Nikolaus Bethlen, Prince Charles Transylvanian properties, rewilding, Romania, safari, Saxon houses, Sighisoara, snowshoe walking, The Prince of Wales's Guesthouse, The Vampire Diaries, torch-lit wine cellars, Transalpina Road, Transfagarasan Road, Transylvania, Transylvanian Alps, Transylvanian countryside, Transylvanian wines, truffle hunting, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, vampires, Viscri, Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, wine tasting 1 Comment

When I saw the photo above in House & Garden, I was filled with an enthusiasm and joy imagining myself having a picnic in this pleasant setting within the green. […]

February 26, 2022

Classic Hotels – Part 2

General, Travel 5th Avenue, Alain Delon, Always at The Carlyle, Art Deco, Ava Gardner, Belle époque, Belmond Splendido Mare, Bemelmans Bar, Bloody Marry, Blue Bar New York, Cafe Carlyle, Central Park, Clement The Peninsula, DaV Mare, De Sica, Earl Rose, Elizabeth Taylor honeymoon, Ernesto Basile, Fifth Avenue, Florian family, George Clooney, Golden Triangle of Art, Greta Garbo, Guerlain spa, Home Alone hotel, Jerónimos, King Cole Bar, King Edward VII, King of Siam, L'Atelier Robuchon, Lake Geneva, Ludwig Bemelmans, Madrid, Mandarin Oriental Ritz Madrid, Manhattan, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Mick Jagger, Mont Blanc, Museum Mile, New York, Nikola Tesla, Palermo, Paseo del Prado, Pedro Almodóvar, Piazzetta di Portofino, Pierre-Yves rochon, Portofino, Princess Diana, Quique Dacosta, Roberto Rossellini, Round Table New York, Russian Tea Room, Salon de Ning, Salvador Dalí, Sicily, Sophia Loren, The Algonquin Hotel, The Barefoot Contessa, The Carlyle, The Leopard, The Peninsula New York, The Plaza New York, The Quin New York, The St Regis New York, The Woodward Geneva, Villa Igiea, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Woody Allen No comments

This post is the continuation (the second part) of my previous post under the title “Classic Hotels – Part 1“. The last hotel I had mentioned in my previous post […]

January 30, 2022

Classic Hotels – Part 1

General, Travel Alfred Hitchcock, Arnaud Donckele, Bar du Bristol, Cary Grant, Cheval Blanc Paris, Cheval Blanc St Tropez, Churchill, Çırağan Palace Kempinski Istanbul, Claridge's, Connaught Bar, Dior Spa Cheval Blanc, Epicure Restaurant, Fa-Raon, Happy Guest Award 2019, Hélène Darroze, Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Jérôme Banctel, Kasia dietz, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Novak, La Pagode de Cos Restaurant Paris, La Réserve Hotel Paris, La Samaritaine, Langosteria, Le Bristol Paris, Le Tout-Paris, Le Tout-Paris Cheval Blanc, Limbar, Louis Vuitton, LVMH, Mandarin Oriental Bangkok, Maxime Frédéric, Maybourne Group, Mayfair, Michelin, Peter Marino, Plénitude Rsetaurant, Pont Neuf, Raffles Singapore, Randheli Maldives, Rita Hayworth, Royal Hawaiian Honolulu, Seine, Singapore Sling, St Barths, Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai, The Connaught, The Foyer Reading Room, The Fumoir, three-Michelin starred, traditional English Afternoon Tea, Travel Leisure, Tugra Restaurant, World's Best Bar, Yul Brynner No comments

I am fond of anything classic. Classic does not disappoint you and contains a qualified simplicity within, that is reflected as a timeless beauty. Clothes, decoration, styles and hotels … […]

November 25, 2021

Costa Rica – The Rich Coast

General, Latin America, Travel acai, Anamaya Yoga, Arenal volcano, biodiversity, Blue Corn, blue morpho, Blue Surf Sanctuary, Blue Zones, Cabo Blanco, Cahuita, Cala Luna, canopy, capuchin, Caribbean, Cielo Lodge, cloud forests, Cocos Island, conservation, Corcovado, Costa Rica, eco-lodges, ecotourism, Florblanca, Gabriela Valenzuela-Hirsch, goji berry, Golfito, Guanacaste, Gulf of Dulce, Gulf of Papagayo, hanging bridges, Heartwood Design, Hermosa Treehouse, Hotel Kasiiya Papagayo, Hotel Playa Negra, hummingbirds, jaguar, Juan Diego Evangelista, La Fortuna, La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Lapa Rios, left surf break, Manuel Antonio, Mint, Mistico Park, Monteverde, Montezuma, national parks, Nayara Gardens, Nayara Springs, Nayara Tented Camp, Nicoya peninsula, Olof Wessberg, Osa peninsula, Pacific, Pavones, Peace Lodge, pizzicato, Playa Negra, Playa Santa Teresa, Playas del Coco, Puerto Viejo, Punta Gabriela, Puntarenas, Pura Vida, Restaurants on The Edge, Samasati Yoga, Santa Maria de Dota, Santa Teresa, scarlet macaws, Six Senses Papagayo, superfoods, surf clubs, surf shops, surfing, Tamarindo, Tamarindo Surf Film Festival, Tarrazu, The Lookout Seafood, Ticos, Tortuga Lodge, Tortuguero, woodpeckers, yoga retreats, ziplines No comments

Costa Rica tempted me following an article I have read in ‘Condé Nast Traveller‘ a few months ago and I decided to write this post. I had not ever noticed […]