Primeval Algonquin Park
What is it about Ontario's breathtaking Algonquin Park , with its 7630 square kilometres of forests, lakes and rivers that resonates so strongly? There is something primeval here, hard to…
ANGUILLA – FANTASY ISLAND (appeared in NUVO Magazine)
I stepped out of my hotel room onto a near-empty beach with eggshell-coloured sand. About twenty steps later, I was in the pristine, turquoise waters of Meads Bay, on the…
San Francsico’s French Connection
San Francisco has always been a Francophile’s refuge. The French influence began with the city itself. Some of the first immigrants were Parisians feeling the uprising of l848. And of…
New Orleans
https://roamancing.com/2013/11/roamancing-new-orleans-jacqueline-swartz-beyond-french-quarter/
LUTETIA: the biography of an hotel (appeared in the Toronto Star)
In France writer Pierre Assouline is a literary star. He has a weekly column in the daily paper, LeMonde where he also writes the most popular literary blog in France. He has published…
Hotel Montmartre, Paris’ Literary Hotel
Montmartre Mon Amour Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, Paris by Jacqueline Swartz The theme of Paris’ Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, is love – or rather passion, expressed by celebrated French writers, singers and…
Boston Uncommon
BOSTON UNCOMMON: Combining Hipness with History Taking a water taxi for a dreamy ride from a waterfront hotel to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art is like a screenshot of what Boston…
Arizona’s Desert Rose
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Ensemble Vacations. Click here to see a PDF of the original article Architecture Blooms in the Sonoran Desert In the…
Caravaggio at the National Gallery
This article originally appeared on May 27, 2011 in Nuvo Magazine. Click here to see the original version A contemporary old master. Not only is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio one…
Africa on the Orient Express
This article originally appeared in Nuvo Magazine It was night in the Botswana bush and everything seemed hyper real: the blackout sky was crammed full of stereophonically bright stars, and…