Pocket Earth : The best travel app in the world?
Pocket Earth. Being a frequent traveler as well as a smartphone user since such devices came on the market, I have tried and used many many travel apps these past few years. Most of the hundred or so travel apps on my iphone have provided only temporary help or specific help on one or other…
Musee Renoir and Musee National de l’Art Culinaire Auguste Escoffier
Highlights of the day *Musee Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is one of my favorite paintings in the whole world, because of the way it stirs in one feelings of beauty and feelings of la joie de vivre. That painting, luckily, is housed near us at the Phillips Collection in Dupont…
Shangri-La Hotel Chengdu !
Shangri-La Hotel Chengdu. Read the previous posting at “Chengdu China : capital of Sichuan!” Since we were staying at the Shangri-La Hotel Chengdu, we had made reservations at the very formal and top-rated Shang Palace hotel restaurant, where they serve Chinese cuisine at its finest, but at the last minute decided to take it easy…
Want to go to Paradise? Well, we just found it!
Uncovered while visiting Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi, the origin of the word “Paradise”. The Iranian Farsi word for “Walled Garden”, a treasured feature of the palaces of the time, is “Pairi Daeza”! Stay tuned to BonVoyageurs.com for more Countries of the World as we share our joie de vivre from around…