The Greenwich Hotel – New York
Robert De Niro, the unofficial mayor of Tribeca, co-owns the Greenwich Hotel.
By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Destinations, New York, USA
My Head Trip in Mumbai, India.
“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
Destination Mumbai, India
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
Lake Minnewaska, New York
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, Arizona for Beginners
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 at Gainey Ranch
7500 East Doubletree Road Ranch, Scottsdale, Arizona
http://scottsdale.hyatt.com
With views of the McDowell Mountains and the Sonoran Desert, the Hyatt Regency plays up to its dramatic location. Gainey Ranch is stunning [...]
By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Arizona, Scottsdale, USA
Insider’s Brooklyn
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 series of Sex and the City, Miranda bought a brownstone in the boho Brooklyn enclave of Fort Greene. On screen she was in the doldrums about her new life on [...]
By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, USA
Eyelash Tinting in NYC
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 a city where you’d think anything goes, eyelash tints are illegal in New York. But damn it, my lashes are impossibly fair and could do with the treatment. Breaking rules and [...]
By Felicity Loughrey
Categories New York, USA
Couchsurfing America – One Man’s Story
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
Arizona Spas
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 Avania. Attached to the Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale Arizona this spa is a relatively new addition to North America’s spa capital.
As she moves through the US$9 million facility [...]
By Felicity Loughrey
Categories Arizona, Scottsdale, Spa breaks, USA
