Travel For Adventurous Women
As the first woman to travel around the world, Jeanne Baret is definitely on the list as a contender for the original Travel Belle. Neil Armstrong. Ferdinand Magellan. Roald Amundsen. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The first men to set foot on the moon, circumnavigate the earth, reach the South Pole and climb Everest are … Read more
Indonesia’s 3,000-mile string of islands arcs across the globe like a sword slung from the earth’s equator. Near the bottom of the curve, at the confluence of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, sits Bali. A Hindu island in a Muslim archipelago, Bali has been washed for centuries by waves of cultures from … Read more
“The great doing of little things makes the great life.”
A woman who lived under the Tuscan sun in the early 1900s The villa and beautiful gardens at La Foce in Tuscany. An Italian nobleman for a husband. The stuff of dreams for many a Travel Belle. But Iris Origo’s life was no fairy tale. She endured war, loneliness, grief and privation during Italy’s troubled … Read more
Tips for getting around Hong Kong with the “Octopus Card” In the 1960 movie “The World of Suzie Wong,” William Holden approaches Hong Kong on a scenic Star Ferry ride across sampan-littered Victoria Harbor.Fifty years later my husband and I were sealed inside a gleaming, nearly-deserted bullet train whose windows revealed only black tunnel walls racing … Read more
