 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Expeditions with Conrad Combrink
South African Conrad Combrink assembles one of the most admired expedition teams in the luxury travel business – he has 11 specialists on each sailing of Silverseas’ Prince Albert. Read more LINK TO THIS MONTH’S TC | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | New Year's Eve celebration!
Roman Abramovich and Daria Zhukova – mother of of his latest child, Aaron – threw a $4 million New Year’s Eve party at their new hang-out on St Barth’s. They bought the $90 million, 70-acre Grosvenor Bay estate from Jeet Singh, co-founder of Art T...more | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Celebration at Tropicana
Cuba’s best-known nightclub, Tropicana, launched at Villa Mina in the Marianao area of Havana, has celebrated its 70th birthday. Apart from Mondays, nightly dinner shows, in the open-air Salon Bajo Las Estrellas, start at 9 o’clock and the director today is David ...more | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | High Line Park wins award
Wallpaper magazine’s 2010 annual design awards, announced January 14th, 2010, gave best Life-enhancer to New York City’s High Line park on the site of a former elevated rail track. Masterplanners were James Corner Field Operations and Diler Scofidio + Renfro. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Cruise the French Polynesia
Richard Bailey, President of Pacific Beachcomber, S.C, hosted a ten-day cruise January 16-26, 2010, taking in the South Pacific islands of Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea, Rangiroa, Bora Bora, Taha’a, and Moorea. Pacific Beachcomber recently bought Paul Gauguin Cruises. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Missoni Hotel Cape Town announced
The Missoni clan turned out in force, with executives of Rezidor Hotel Group, to announce the forthcoming Missoni Hotel Cape Town. Also there were television stars Kelly Parkhurst, far left, and, far right, Liezel van der Westhuizen. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Did someone say cashmere?
Eve Branson – mother of Virgin hero Sir Richard Branson – with a cashmere goat in Morocco. The Eve Branson Foundation supports craft villages and farming in the Atlas Mountains, which guests of Kasbah Tamadot can visit. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Museum of Contemporary Art saved
New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch is new Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. MOCA, as it is often called, was rescued late 2008 by a $30 million investment from then-Chairman, Eli Broad, a long-time client of Jeffrey Deitch. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report - Wow Travel - February 2010 | | VIP | Saturday, February 06, 2010 | Raffles Food & Arts Experience
Global pianist Jimmy McKissic was once again at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, for its 15th annual Wine, Food & Arts Experience, January 27–31, 2010. Other stars include chef Marc Haeberlin L’Auberge de l’Il, llhaeusern; Château d’Yquem&rsq...more | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report- Wow Travel - January 2010 | | VIP | Thursday, January 07, 2010 | Lime Wood opens!
At the November 21st, 2009, launch of Lime Wood, Hampshire, GM Justin Pinchbeck, left, and Chairman Robin Hutson. The 29-room luxury hotel, in England’s New Forest, is owned by Ineos Petrochemicals boss Jim Ratcliffe, and designer is David Collins. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report- Wow Travel - January 2010 | | VIP | Thursday, January 07, 2010 | Gucci Masters
Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, rode in the Gucci Masters at Parc des Expositions, outside Paris, December 10-13, 2009 (photo Bauer Griffin). Other celebrities included tennis ace Martina Hingis. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report- Wow Travel - January 2010 | | VIP | Thursday, January 07, 2010 | The Renault Formula One
The Renault Formula One team is now 75% owned by Genii Capital, led by Gérard Lopez. He has brought in as new team principal Frenchman Eric Boullier, 36, formerly MD of GP-2 team DAMS (Boullier replaces the flamboyant Flavio Briatore). | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report- Wow Travel - January 2010 | | VIP | Thursday, January 07, 2010 | A wine connoisseurs’ delight
Connoisseur and restaurateur Marlon Abela, left, and the COO of MARC (Marlon Abela Restaurant Company) Patrick Willis, on a Burgundy wine trip November 27-28, 2009. During the connoisseurs’ delight, Willis was inducted into the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin. | | Email this article to a friend |
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 | | | VIP Report- Wow Travel - January 2010 | | VIP | Thursday, January 07, 2010 | Cognac only gets better with age
In Paris, Tour d’Argent sommelier David Ridgway a 1788 Clos du Griffier cognac that sold for $37,000 at the auction of the Paris restaurant’s cellar, December 7th, 2009. The purchaser was London-based Raphael Zier, 38. | | Email this article to a friend |
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