by Wendy Hand | Mar 21, 2019 | Travel Tales
The magic of Blue Gold in the Midi-Pyrenees. During the renaissance the leaves of this very ordinary looking plant known locally as Pastel created a triangle of huge wealth in the Midi-Pyrenees linking Toulouse, Albi and Carcassonne. In its heyday during the 16th and...
by Wendy Hand | Oct 28, 2018 | Destinations
The Fair that Supports Genuine Mexican Art and Artisans by Mexperience The Mexican art scene is undergoing tremendous change. A culmination of circumstances which include low-cost machine-manufacturing, cheap import copies from the far-east, and artisans moving to...
by Wendy Hand | Sep 3, 2018 | Destinations
Capri – Villa San Michele “I want my house to be open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere” The words of Alex Munthe, Swedish physician, when he fell in love with the idyllic island of...
