FIGHT CLUBS By Kristy Alpert In a small, dark room lined with traditional samurai weaponry and paved in well-worn planks of Japanese hard wood, a group of masked men meet together for the ultimate show down of physical prowess. If it seems like this scene is straight out of a…
Don’t Hike Hungry Eat your way through the German countryside this month By Kristy Alpert THE TRAILS AND PATHWAYS are well worn in Germany, where hikers seek to conquer the Palatinate Forest by foot, hike the hilltops in the Eifel mountain range or wander the Weinstrasse and its rolling…
Weddings at the Ice Hotel in Quebec At Canada wedding venue, expect cold feet By Kristy Alpert / August 31, 2016 Although the walls are made entirely of snow and ice, and the internal temperature of the chapel averages around 23 degrees, weddings and vow renewals at Canada’s Hotel de Glace…
A Sense of Place New Zealand’s landscape is a tantalizing departure for the palate and the soul By KRISTY ALPERT The Awatere Valley from above, where foragers hunted for wild game at Forage 2016. Photo by Kieran Scott I feel the smooth pebbles shift and settle beneath me as I take one more…
BY KIRSTY ALPERT 5 Things I Learned from Partying in Mumbai First things first: Leave the little black dress at home. KRISTY ALPERT 12.14.2015 First things first: Leave the little black dress at home It was during the dessert course on the first night of Diwali that my trip to…
