Madagascar
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
Fogo Island Studios
March 25th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
Fogo Island lies outside of Newfoundland, Canada and is home to a gentle, independent people who have lived for centuries between wind and waves in pursuit of fish. Fogo Islanders live in the untamed landscape of the North Atlantic. The people are subtle and unpretentious [...]
Hateruma, Japan
January 15th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Today the world becomes more populated and inhabited. Nevertheless, there are places where the sun, sand and sea gusts are the only one friends….Welcome to Hateruma, located near the Tropic of Cancer, part of the Yaeyama Island group, Japan. This coral island is clothed in banyan trees, Indian almonds, bamboo orchids and colourful hibiscus. Somehow it’s a blissfulness of remoteness [...]
11 Hours In the Sun
December 7th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Lifestyle
The Caribbean island of Tobago takes it nice and easy. There are no reasons to stir, except for the stirring swimwear worn here at Back Bay beach on the Caribbean side of Tobago. Vitamin AR Signature collection by Amahlia Stevens bathing suit, $246. Go to [...]
Rock Of Ages
May 19th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Lifestyle
The Greek island of Patmos is a place of wonders both natural and divine. The island has drawn solace seekers for nearly 2,000 years – without ever loosing its cool. Patmos doesn’t have an airport. So you take a seven – hour ferry from Athens [...]
Bali, Indonesia
April 22nd, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Few destinations have benefited from modern tourism quite like Bali, Indonesia. It makes them so sad: hundreds if not thousands of years of cultural evolution undone by a few decades of modern, Western-style development, much of it of the globalized luxury persuasion. Tweet
Borneo
April 21st, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Borneo is the third largest island in the world. It is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. The island is a haven for researchers, scientists and adventure travelers and one of the most [...]
Lord Of The Rings
February 25th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
This interesting a 3,500-square-foot multilevel home was built in 1975 by Ian Morrison, who took inspiration for the design from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” In case you wanted to compare the house to the Lord of the Rings again click here and find savings [...]
Grenada
February 7th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Travel
Grenada is a beautiful island in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. The history of Grenada begins in 1498, when Christopher Columbus first sighted the island and gave the name Conception island, later called it Grenada. The United States led invasion on the island, already 25 years, [...]