Seeing the World One Step at a Time
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We are decorating trees, baking cookies and everything smells of the Holidays. Comparing different cultures there is not a real consent regarding the date on which we celebrate Christmas. Some celebrate on December 24th, others the 25th… [Read More]
Sitting on the most comfortable lounger ever, watching fat white clouds scuttling by in the seriously blue sky above Cap Juluca on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, I’m wondering why I’d ever want to get up. I suspect the rich and famous who visit here,… [Read More]
Located on the east coast, Stockholm is Sweden’s largest city and its capital. Vibrant Stockholm is actually built upon 14 islands but is easy to traverse on foot and is the perfect location for an exciting weekend city break. Stockholm is an amazingly diverse city,… [Read More]
Breckenridge, Colorado is known for it’s quaint historic downtown and it’s epic 2,358 acres of skiing. Tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, it’s a small town that offers a lot. My husband’s family owns a small condo in Breckenridge, so we find ourselves up there… [Read More]
Living in San Francisco, there’s no dearth of restaurants to choose from on a Saturday evening. A few weekends ago, I was given the opportunity to dine in Oakland and wondered what on earth the food scene would be like – was there even a… [Read More]
Wine, camera, action! Luscious wines and innovative independent movies in enticing venues on a gorgeous fall weekend in the Napa Valley? The Napa Valley Film Festival gets two thumbs up from my husband (“Mr. TWS”) and me! As film buffs and wine enthusiasts with a special… [Read More]
Ex-expat John M. Edwards is invited as a “standby” to a sumptuous Parisian dinner party near Passy, where perforce playing the devil’s advocate comes with no pricetag at all. . . . “Hello John, how would you like to come to a dinner party tonight,”… [Read More]
John M. Edwards hunkers down in the hallway of his Caribbean concrete-block hotel to sit out a hurricane tempest more powerful than Peter Potamous’s “Hippo Hurricane Howler”! “BEE-HEE-HEE-HAW-HAW!” I impressively bellowed like Peter Potamous, the cartoon hippo on the Hana-Barbera animated series “Peter Potamous and… [Read More]
You can’t drive here; you can’t boat here; you can’t even walk here…you’d be eaten. We’re somewhere in the back end of nowhere, some 300 kilometers from the closest paved road; 1500 kilometers from the nearest Whole Foods. If you cry wolf here, everyone believes… [Read More]
John M. Edwards survives a psychedelic breakdown–and hubris–on a backpacker’s hub off the coast of Thailand. . . . In Thailand, it is not necessary to have an actual full moon shining down on you in order to throw together a “Full Moon Party”—just loads… [Read More]
