March 7th, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
For Yodit Eklund, the 26-year-old designer behind Bantu swimwear, the beaches along Africa’s West Coast are a source of inspiration — so she photographed her recent collection there (including the suits above, on the road to Assinie-Mafia in Ivory Coast). She wonders why ‘‘some of [...]
January 3rd, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Cabo Polonio, a remote beach village in southeastern Uruguay, sits on a green peninsula between the Atlantic and a desert landscape of shifting sand dunes. Strewn across the grassy promontory are a single lighthouse and a few hundred whimsical dwellings. Tweet
January 3rd, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Today the Berlin-based Design Hotels group is staking the first big claim to the trend on the beach in Tulum, Mexico. The company’s founder, Claus Sendlinger, who moved with his family to Tulum last year, is spearheading the opening of Papaya Playa, a spiffed-up campus of cabanas once [...]
August 8th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Wisps of sea mist obscured the moon. San Elijo State Beach in Encinitas is one of the most popular campgrounds in San Diego County, overflowed with tents, RVs and campers. Tweet
March 30th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Travel
The island of Madagascar is one of the oldest in the world. It is located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. Tweet
