Holiday Goddess

Felicity Loughrey admires the fashion-forward Korean clothes and 70s nostalgia

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, Shopping, USA

Robert De Niro, the unofficial mayor of Tribeca, co-owns the Greenwich Hotel.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Destinations, New York, USA

“India has a hair fetish” writes ABC broadcaster Sarah Macdonald in her subcontinent travelogue, Holy Cow (Broadway Books). “Every Sunday the parks are full of girls sitting in a circle massaging oil into each other’s scalps, and the salons buzz to the sound of hair dryers.” On the streets of Mumbai, India’s financial and glamour capital, there are makeshift barber shops on the footpath and girls in bright kurtas push past with liquorice locks.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories India, Mumbai, Spa breaks

Travelling around Mumbai I would opt for the black-and-yellow taxis. They are mostly old Fiats that aren’t made anymore. They feel like dodgem cars crammed across lanes of traffic and not obeying any road rules as far as I could tell. Most cabs are without rear vision mirrors and seatbelts. But nevermind, just about every vehicle has a shrine on the dashboard.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories India, Mumbai

Only a two-hour drive north of New York City on the I-87 near the town of Gardiner is Lake Minnewaska, tucked in the Shawangunk Ridge. To enter the Minnewaska State Park Reserve forest there is $7 fee per car. Near the car park there’s a grassy lea with picnic tables.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, USA, Weekend breaks

Scottsdale offers a Frank Lloyd Wright fix and some excellent bars and restaurants. By Felicity Loughrey. Where to Stay Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa …

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Arizona, Scottsdale, USA

Felicity Loughrey explores Brooklyn’s Fort Greene, just ten minutes from downtown Manhattan and home to Spike Lee and a cult beauty store. In the final …

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, USA

Felicity Loughrey talks a walk on the wild side of New York law and tries to find someone (anyone!) who will tint her lashes. In …

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, USA

Felicity Loughrey interviews a man who took his last US vacation the easy way – surfing the couches (and spare rooms) of willing single women.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories How To Travel, USA

Felicity Loughrey tries underwater music at one of Arizona’s best spas. In a prim uniform and wedge espadrilles, spa director Dzeneta Arslanovic, pads around Spa …

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Arizona, Scottsdale, Spa breaks, USA