Long Weekend in Reims, France Posted by Kristy Alpert Set among the vineyard-lined hills of France’s Champagne region, the city of Reims has multiple Michelin-starred restaurants, numerous les grandes marques Champagne houses, and a handful of hidden-gem bars and boutiques that are lifting the dust off this once sleepy city and giving locals…
Living Large By Kristy Alpert I felt oddly at ease as I stood in a sea of bold colors and glittering lights, wrapped in silk and draped in jewels with the warm night air of Mumbai acting as a shawl to my bare and freshly hennaed arms. The blush-toned bubbles…
14 Places to Travel Before You Have Kids By Kristy Alpert Picnicking beneath the Eiffel Tower isn’t the same with a busy toddler in tow, and the high-altitude, stony streets of Cusco aren’t quite as charming when you’re struggling to push a stroller around them. Although it can be wonderful…
Jettisoning Jet Lag in HanoiBy Kristy Alpert I half-stumbled my way into the lobby of the Le Spa du Metropole, still weary from spending the better part of 24 hours on a plane. My arrival in Hanoi, Vietnam, had been smooth, but it didn’t take long before the hours caught…
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…
