- Luxury Travel: It’s About Access, Not Thread Counts Luxury is about opening doors…or gates. The author at Burghley House in England. “Show me something I can’t see on my own, introduce me to someone I could not meet. That is the trip I will take. Luxury is Access. “ That’s my travel mantra and apparently, many UHNW travelers share my view. At a recent […]
- About Viking Cruises: What I Meant to Say Leaving the port of Le Havre, France onboard Viking Sea. Returning to my cabin after another exciting Viking Cruises‘ christening in Koblenz, Germany, I found a letter, asking if I would consider being interviewed. I emailed the Viking video team that I would be happy to share my thoughts on Viking and cruising. (This is […]
- An Imperial Journey: Moscow to St. Petersburg The trip I want to repeat…again and again. Join me next summer? Here is a short video of some of the sites and treasures I discovered when cruising the waterways from Moscow to St. Petersburg this year. Thank you Viking River Cruises. Well done. (Be sure and click HD on settings!) What sites can you recognize? Look for […]
- A #Journeymaker in Russia: Beyond Postcard Travel Thanks to a seventeen year career in travel at the Smithsonian Institution and a lifetime of personal travel, I have visited almost every country, or former country, over the past 35 years. From the Arctic, Amazon and Antarctic to Easter Island, Fiji, Vladivostok and Beijing, north to south, east to west, I have circled the […]
- “Glories of the Hermitage” Russia in the Winter During the Gilded Age, at the turn of the last century, St. Petersburg was a must stop on every social calendar…in winter. The social season of Russia’s imperial capital was at it’s height during January and February, when there was little sunlight. Having spent a week in St. Petersburg, in the dead of winter, I […]
