Thursday, December 7, 2023

Siya in the Big Apple

Jen Su attends South African rugby icon Siya Kolisi's first fundraiser in the Big Apple at the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame

36 Hours in Nashville

Jen Su at the 57th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville Tennessee.

Boks to Basquiat

Whether it’s the melting pot of international communities, the wealth of events and exhibitions – or celeb-spotting at a swanky restaurant, the Big Apple never disappoints, writes Jen Su. 

L.A. with the Stars

Jen Su decides to jet to LA and “live like a star” for a week with her girlfriends, where they bump into Meghan Markle.

Betting on Bornholm

Bornholm’s oldest commercial centre, Gudhjem held herring fairs in the Middle Ages and started the smoked fish industry. Fishing is still the main occupation here and from Gudhjem you can take a boat to Ertholmene, a group of three tiny islands

Clock Shock

Lapland is Europe’s last wilderness with salmon-stocked lakes and forests filled with brown bears, lynx, foxes, elk and reindeer.

St Petersburg Metro

Saint Petersburg’s metro is one of the world's busiest with five subway lines, 67 stations, 3 000 trains and 2.5 million passengers a day

Mauritius Travel

The Republic of Mauritius will fully reopen its borders on October 1 to vaccinated international travelers.

Meet Malaka

St Lucia in the Caribbean is open to American tourists. Local guide and boatman Malaka will show you all the sights

Dreaming of Copenhagen

Like a conjurer unveiling ‘wow moments’ with every sweep of his cape, Henrik Thierlein is to Copenhagen what twinkling lights are to Tivoli

Last Tango in BA?

With its cobblestones and colourful corrugated iron conventillos, La Boca dazzles in hues of pinks, reds, yellows and blues but it might be a while before you can visit again

ASMALLWORLD Collection now live

ASMALLWORLD AG has launched the 'ASMALLWORLD Collection, an online hotel booking engine and travel service that focuses exclusively on the world's best hotels. Benefits include room upgrades, $100 food & beverage credits, special rates, and late check-outs.

Room with a boo!

In the wee hours, I awoke with a start. Something ‒ or someone ‒ kept switching on the bathroom light. It would shine for a few minutes, then go dark. My husband snored on despite my persistent prodding, so I got up to gaze across the moonlit garden and fields, listening for clanking chains or deathly moans. Ikke noget!

Heavenly Dome

Around 2600-miles north of its Patagonian tail, the Atacaman head of serpentine Chile snakes into Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina. Stripped down to shape and shadow, this desiccated Disneyland lures adventurers, archaeologists, and astronomers alike.

Gilt(y) Pleasures

You can't go to St Petersburg and not visit Catherine’s Palace and Peterhof. Their combined splendour would put today's richest Russian oligarchs to shame

Celestial Spectacle

Officially, the aurora-borealis comprises electrically charged particles from the sun colliding with gas molecules but the more arcane among us know these celestial emanations mark the entrance to a twilight paradise lit by a twin sun, where assorted beings, including Germans from the Vril Society, a few pixies, giants, and Lemurian descendants, have lived in perfect health for hundreds of years

Top Five European cities

Once the Covid-19 lockdown is over and we can start travelling again, let's head for any of these five top European destinations

Alpine Adventure

From Italy you can get to Zermatt by ski lift. Bahnhofstrasse is the alpine resort's cobbled main street where horse-drawn carriages ferry tourists around

Brazilian road trip

Seeking the kingdom of the suntanned revelers, my husband and I hired a car then headed northeast for Torres on the Atlantic Coast

Railing through Switzerland

The Glacier Express tracks you to the heights of Switzerland’s vertiginous mountains amid forest, turquoise lakes and rushing rapids at a snail pace that is just perfect!

Noshing in Nørrebro

Snatches of memory come and go in flashbulb moments – a handsome young waiter, a strawberry and rhubarb something or another, then lurching into midnight train home. Snoring on the trains is practically a Danish pastime