Month: October 2008

My latest travel obsession is with luxury camping: I like being close to nature but having plenty of comforts, too, and it seems I am not the only one. At Condé Nast Traveler‘s Reader’s Choice Awards last week, India Beat‘s Bertie Dyer (one of Wendy Perrin’s  travel specialists) told me about the new Surya Serai …

Where to: Get off the beaten path in Mexico…Eat the best post-swim muffins in Montauk…Find the top surfing competitions in Hawaii…Catch the biggest waves in the Midwest (and, yes, you read that correctly)

If you have ever wondered whether Italian bureaucracy is actually as monumental as people say, the fact that it took the Four Seasons seven years to open in Florence might give you a clue. Every few months, builders stumbled on yet another fresco or statue and things came to a standstill as the Bella Arte …