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Hello, this is Mary Gostelow the Editor-in-Chief of Kiwi Collection's online luxury magazine - and welcome to the latest issue of WOW.travel, news, hints and trends before you find them elsewhere.
So please enjoy the whole of WOW.travel, finished at Ananda in the Himalayas where I am researching just for you. You will find it easy to get into all back articles of WOW.travel. New ones, up specially this month, include for Seven Sensational Sparkling Sunday Brunches, for insider thoughts from London-based legend Terry Holmes, and a concierge's ideas for Singapore.
And share the style of that unique innovator Ross Klein, who has moved from luxury fashion to lifestyle hotels. You also have stories from around the world, namely this month Berlin, Bhutan, Cambridge UK, Hawaii, Maldives, Quebec, Singapore and Tristan da Cunha. Our new series on great hotel restaurants kicks off in San Francisco and, staying for a while in California, this month's Away-night takes us to Beverly Hills.
Here, too, below, you have WOWconfidential.
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Follow the bronze brick road to Copacabana Palace
No need to wait for Carnavale to head for Rio. Copacabana Palace's new Lounge Bar is reached via a meandering golden pathway of glistening bronze bricks. The gold dance floor has a ceiling of fibre-optic constellations of the Southern Hemisphere - and the tiled bar is Murano.
Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Make your own personal scent at Ojai Valley Inn & Spa
Invest in life, and you feel good. At Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, near Los Angeles, there is a three-day program April 19-21, 2009, which includes guided walks and yoga, spa treatments and devising, distilling and blending your own personalized scent at the Inn's Artist's Cottage and Apothecary, www.ojairesort.com.
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Swissôtel is offering programs for kids
Swissôtel is offering its Club Swiss Gold members lots of free 'educationals' for kids. They can learn flower arranging in Geneva, afternoon tea presentations in London and take orchid tours in Bangkok, www.swissotel.com.
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Merci: Paris' hottest new boutique
Merci, Paris' hottest boutique, opened 5th March 2009. Bernard and Marie-France Cohen sold their children's brand Bonpoint and now, they say, they are giving back. Marie-France chooses what she personally likes (buy perfumes by her late sister Annick Goutal). Merci is at 111 boulevard Beaumarchais, 75003 Paris, France.
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Carcassonne is going to become more accessible
Carcassonne, France, will become even more accessible with additional flights from Edinburgh, Scotland, and Frankfurt-Hahn. WOW.travel cannot wait to return to Hôtel de la Cité, right in this medieval walled city (it's a conversion of the Bishop's Palace and we like garden-facing rooms, with private terraces).
Hôtel de la Cité, Carcassonne, France
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RiverandRail.travel brings together unique train and river cruise journeys
Carcassonne is actually high above the 17th century Canal du Midi, on the Unesco World Heritage List - take a canal trip, while there. There's a new site, www.riverandrail.travel, for canal-river enthusiasts. It offers everything from overnight cruising in Halong Bay, Vietnam and sailing from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap (Angkor), Cambodia.
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Get pampered at the Malaysian Spa Festival
In England, Thermae Bath Spa, hosts a Spa Village event, complete with Egg Undulation Facials, and tasting foods, for three weeks from April 22nd, www.spafestival.co.uk. Sponsor Kuala Lumpur-based YTL, which owns the Spa Villages and, as it happens, Wessex Water, brought the Three Tenors to Bath for Thermae's launch, www.ytlcommunity.com.
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It's time to visit the Maldives!
In these thoughtful times, we all need a bit of color. Adriaan Erasmus shows off the incredible hues of the Indian Ocean around The Maldives (and, if more inducement is needed, the region's best surfing is now until November). Read more about the Maldives here.
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Happy Birthday to Cambridge University!
This last month WOW.travel went to Cambridge University, celebrating its 800th birthday this year. Read more about this global center of learning, and its past and future here.
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The Monkey Bar is now owned by a fascinating trio
The Monkey Bar in Henry Kallen's Elysée Hotel on New York's East 54th Street is now owned by a fascinating trio, namely the Editor of Vanity Fair magazine Graydon Carter, photo; Jeremy King, synonymous with The Wolseley in London and City Club owner Jeff Klein. The Monkey Bar re-opens shortly, www.elyseehotel.com.
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The Gates of Heaven - Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt
The Louvre has The Gates of Heaven - Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt, now through June 29th, 2009. Afterwards, head for the Anne Semonin spa at Hotel Le Bristol Paris for a Black Sand Body Scrub, with sand from French Polynesia blended with jojoba, calendula and sweet almond oils.
Hotel Le Bristol Paris, Paris, France
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Chow down at Ford's Filling Station
Ben Ford - son of Harrison Ford - runs what many call the best gastropub in Los Angeles. Ford's Filling Station, in Culver City, is specially famed for his signature ground chuck burger topped with Maytag blue cheese and caramelized
onions, www.fordsfillingstation.net.
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Check out the artwork at Cavallo Point
Cavallo Point, by San Francisco's Golden Gate, is a haven for the senses. Its permanent and rotating collection, unveiled March 14th, 2009, includes work by Ruth Asawa, Richard Barnes, Squeak Carnwath, Gregory Colbert, Linda Connor, Imogen Cunningham, Lukas Felzmann, David Maisel, Arno Minkkinen, Yoshitomo Saito and Kay Sekimachi. Curator of the free-to-browse collection is Anne Veh.
Cavallo Point, San Francisco, United States
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Concorso d’Eleganza celebrates the mystique of historic cars
BMW will be showing off its 2010 Z4 Roadster April 24-26, 2009, at Villa d'Este, Lake Como. Other cars in the Concorso will include Ralph Lauren's Bugatti Atlantic 57SC, 1938, restored by Paul Russel; and, from the same vintage, Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta, www.concorsodeleganzavilladeste.com.
Villa d'este, Lake Como, Italy
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Taste sweets from Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano
Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano has since 1780 been called Italy's finest sweet maker. The seventh-generation family still make everything by hand. Head to Genoa to the Via Soziglia flagship store, little changed since it was built 1814, to try the specialty, candied chestnuts and other fruits, www.romanengo.com.
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WOW.travel salutes the quality of Bombay and its people
In Mumbai, we salute the quality of Bombay and its people. We stayed both in Oberoi's Trident Nariman Point and at Taj Mahal Tower. Here, on April 2nd, 2009, by the calm Taj Mahal poolside, are hotel GM Karambir Singh Kang and Yannick Poupon, COO Taj Luxury India. We'll be back for the Taj Mahal Palace re-opening this December.
The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, India
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Coming Up Next Month!
Next month you find our choice of Seven Spectacular Urban Oasis, and more, much more. Enjoy!
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