Ice Canyoning in Quebec

At the foot of Mont Sainte-Anne (about 30 minutes away from downtown Québec City), you can get a fantastic winter experience in the Jean-Larose Falls by simply adapting the summer techniques and knowledge to winter conditions (rappelling on ice with crampons). Ice-canyoning is the perfect activity to easily discover the … Read more

Heart of Glass

Personalized Drinking Glasses at Le Germain Boutique-Hotels Le Germain Boutique-hotels, located in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary, are beautiful, refined and quite sexy. The perfect spots for romance when staying in Canada. Also a great place to shop for unusual souvenirs reflective of the hotels high design spirit. Think great … Read more

Quattro Miami Beach

If you crave being in the vortex of the SoBe (South Beach) scene when you’re weekending in Miami, then head to Quattro.  Don’t even think about what came primero (first), segundo (second) and terzo (third), Quattro, although 4th in name should be first in mind. Quattro, the restaurant of “gastronomia … Read more

New York, NY

Highpoint Bistro & Bar I wondered about the name of the restaurant as we sat down at our table at Highpoint, a New York City place that has to be experienced. When I asked our clever server Jason, he said that this was the first restaurant in Manhattan for chef, … Read more

Yoga in the Caribbean

St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles Just when you thought that paradise couldn’t get more serene, the Anse Chastanet Resort in St Lucia will host a special beach yoga retreat for guests led by Californian yoga guru, Ginger Tracy Olmscheid, from October 1st-8th. The hotel rests on Anse Chastenet beach just north … Read more

Give & Get at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort

 Marco Island, Florida As the popular saying goes, it’s better to give than to receive, but right nowyou can give and receive at a premier southwest Florida resort! Now through September 30, Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort, in partnership with four Gulf Coast organizations, is rewarding travelers who give back … Read more

Top 10 Ways to View Fall Foliage

Partake in the season of leaf-peeping as summer fades out and fall bursts in. As one of the most picturesque times of the year in Bucks County, Pa., autumn brings in a bounty of colorful foliage with vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows. A short 75 miles from New York City … Read more

Weasel Coffee and Bowls of Pho in Saigon, Vietnam

I landed in Saigon a few minutes past midnight exhausted and wired but excited to be in Vietnam, a country that had occupied my imagination for decades.  I’d had just enough time at Narita airport to pick up a liter of Yamazaki Single Malt 12 year old Japanese whiskey, my … Read more

Life in the Key of Largo… Key West’s Little Sister

Life in the Key of Largo… Key West’s Little Sister I’ve read all the tantalizing articles on Travel Squire about vacations in the islands and decided that it was definitely time for my husband and me to get the island groove.  Immediately we found ourselves humming all those funny island … Read more

Greece

  My arrival in Greece is somewhat of a blur. First, arriving to the western coast, off a ten hour boat trip from Brindisi. Then, a train ride across the countryside, a short bus ride to our hotel. Athens was…disappointing. Infamously behind in its preparations for the 2004 Olympics, just … Read more

The Maldives

The Maldives. A world away, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there is no where else like it on the Earth. Specifically it is a chain of atolls, so there are no mountains only reef built isles; they rise from the water just far enough to graze the sky. … Read more

Amazon, Brazil

  I’m sitting on the terrace of the lodge, and as if by magic the evening’s backdrop draws gracefully towards me. Colored a faint bluish grey, the slanted curtain of water begins with a light tap, tap, tap, then slowly the downpour takes over. It is so naturally orchestrated, like … Read more