LATE
I hate being late. I spent 10 years of marriage being late. The kids make me late. My car clocks are set 11 minutes fast. I give dirty looks in the office when my staff is late. So when I’m late—which is rare—I spend most of the date searching out my inner chi. Travelling has […]
Media Events: Atlantis Dubai
Dubai’s At It Again! November 20, 2008. Circle the date because you won’t see another night like this; at least until the next mega-million-dollar party. The folks behind the groundbreaking Palm Jumeirah island unveiled one of the biggest nights of the year to launch the flagship resort: Atlantis. The 1,559 room ocean-themed resort was home […]
MGS Chat: Emirates Airlines’ Nigel Page
Set to begin nonstop service to Los Angeles’s LAX Airport starting October 1 and San Francisco’s SFO on November 20, Emirates Airlines senior vice president of commercial operations of the Americas, Nigel Page, answered my three burning questions. MEDIA GUY: You offer gratis chauffeur service to and from the airport from 26 locations (including New […]
World Portraits: A View From Below
SAUDI ARABIA…Ornate wooden balconies dot the landscape of Saudi Arabia’s residential areas, inviting you to picture countless days where students reviewed notes for upcoming exams and families offered tea and coffee on a lazy weekend afternoon. Sailors of the 15th and 16th centuries roamed the Indian Ocean for the prized East Indian redwood., valued for […]
World Travels: Faraway Faces
A far cry from the ubiquitous strip malls with their lattes and cell phone stores, a visit to the countryside of the Gulf, Mediterranean, Europe and North Africa is like being let in on a secret: the undeniable beauty of life. Beauty lies not only in the eye of the beholder, but in the imagination […]
