Rosewood London: A Glimpse of Palace Life
London: Have you ever wondered how royalty lives? Rosewood London answers the question during a stay at this luxurious top of the line London Hotel.
Kenya: Wild Awakening at Giraffe Manor, Nairobi
Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi Kenya, has the long-necked animals reaching for snacks into windows and running all over the lodge.
Italy: A Peaceful Retreat on the Amalfi Coast
Monastero Santa Rosa: A luxurious, elegant seaside peaceful Retreat on Italy’s spectacular Amalfi coast.
Scotland: The Arts of Glasgow
Glasgow Scotland is full of great music, lively nightlife, museums and beauty Trip Advisor and the NY Times both rank Glasgow on their “Must See” lists.
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada: More Than Polar Bears
Churchill, Manitoba: Best Place on Earth to See the Northern Lights and it is also famous for its polar bear tours and polar bear viewing.
England: My search for Moushill Mead
By Janis Turk Jules wrote the number 7 with a line scratched across the middle like the letter F. His precise penmanship, the folded Mailblock blue airmail envelopes and even his return address intrigued me: Moushill Mead, Milford, Surrey, UK.. His house had a name. I imagined a grand English…
Seeing the Aman Summer Palace–Uninvited
Beijing: Janis Turk tags along with an invited journalist to tour the luxurious Aman Summer Palace Hotel in Beijing, China.
Looking for a Lost Friend in England
Looking for a Lost Friend in England England: My search for Moushill Mead By Janis Turk Jules wrote the number 7 with a line scratched across the middle like the letter F. His precise penmanship, the folded Mailblock blue airmail envelopes and even his return address intrigued me: Moushill Mead,…
South Africa: A Safari at the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve
Janis Turk shoots elephants, rhinos, lions and leopards on a photo safari at the Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge near Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Cape Town Revisited
A traveler returns to her favorite five-star South African locales By Janis Turk In Evelyn Waugh’s classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited, the main character, Sebastian, muses, “I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy, and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I…
Hiking Huangshan, China: Finding my Own Lost Horizon
Huangshan, China: Janis Turk visits Huangshan, china where she hikes up steep, steep steps to find her own Lost Horizon.
Into a Still Country: On Safari in Namibia
By Janis Turk “Now Africa received him, and would change him, and make him one with herself.” — Isak Dinesen Quiet. I write the word in my travel journal. It buzzes like a mosquito about my head. Not “roar,” “wild” or “vast,” as I might have imagined. No, the overwhelming, all-encompassing…