Viewing by month: December 2007
Chick Flit.
Sometime during the Pleistocene Era, homo erectus organized the first hunting trip, and men have been getting out of town to bond with their own kind ever since. Countless millennia later, women are catching up and – according to a recent survey by AAA – surpassing their male counterparts.Read complete post
Ooo-la-la at the Library.
Although the French are noted for their naughty postcards and titillating novels, since the 1830s the most explicit erotica in France has been locked away in the National Library.
Until now.
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Five Tips for Avoiding an Unhappy Hotel Experience.
In the travel section of today’s L.A. Times, a reader complains that nearby construction ruined their stay at a $1,000-a-night Paris hotel. Hotel management exacerbated the problem by blowing them off.
L.A. being the leading litigious light that it is, The Times suggested a trip to small claims court. But there are several things you can do to ensure that when someone gets the short end of the hotel stick, it won’t be you.
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Beach Blanket Berlin.
Not that long ago, the River Spree was a toxic mess avoided by most Berliners – those of a certain age will understand when I specify that I don’t mean the doughnuts. But today, the Spree offers beach-hungry locals faux sand and sea at several cool clubs. Hippest of these is the Badeschiff, opened in 2004 as City Art Project.
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Whitsunday Wonderland.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s must-sees. If anyplace justifies a splurge, this is it. And for years, actually decades, the big-ticket, private-island splurge has been Hayman Island.
But now, there’s a new sybaritic paradise in the Whitsundays that makes Hayman look like a bargain.
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