The Magic Kingdom of Golf
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Travel
The Napa Valley
We’d started our journey in Southern California, traveled to San Francisco and finally arrived in St. Helena in the Napa Valley and the exquisite Meadowood
No time in Iceland
Unless you wash up in Iceland during a solo attempt to row around the world, your first experience of the country will most likely be Reykjavik—this is a good thing.
Japan: Narrow Road
Japan, a simply decorated but exquisitely crafted box that opens to reveal so many more, each a different size and of increasingly rich design, all fit together so perfectly there’s hardly room for water between them.
Coastal Maine
Wild, difficult and mostly untamed, it is also inspiring, dramatic and, as we found, charming. Welcome to the Maine coast. It’s a difficult place, Maine. A “drowned coast” as geologists have it, where ancient rising seas invaded the land, turning valleys into bays and mountaintops into islands. Algonquin-speaking natives lived here and the French and […]
Reposado
On a beautiful stretch of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, Kingdom’s editor is reminded of how beautiful life can be.
Red, White & Blue Sky
Finding a wine that travels well, at altitude, is an intensely complicated exercise, one that requires considerable skills on the part of those entrusted with the task by the world’s leading airlines. Steve Killick talks to some of the industry’s expert viticulturists about what to serve, especially in business- and first-class, and how best to […]
London Calling
The capital of the United Kingdom has a multiplicity of historic sites, memorable attractions and entertaining diversions. Forget the exchange rate and cash-guzzling black taxis, if you’ve never been then 2012 is the year to visit Europe’s largest and most diverse city. The highlights of the year will be Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and […]
Pilots of the Caribbean
The calypso islands of the West Indies are emerging as a major destination for traveling golfers in search of sun, sea and sand (beaches rather than bunkers)
Mexico to a Tee
Robert Trent Jones, Jr., has said that the critical components of a great golf course are great land and water. South of the border there’s plenty of both, so it’s not surprising that Mexico offers some stunning golf. But in a country three times the size of Texas, the problem is deciding which courses to […]
Palm Springs, My Way
The playground of Hollywood’s elite for decades, Palm Springs still has that lucky old sun, and a whole lotta stardust.Advertisement It’s an inevitable truth of any party that if you keep at it long enough, the sun will eventually rise on the revelry. Which, for a party, is the same thing as the sun setting, […]
A World Away
The Rocky Mountaineer is a train journey that transports one not only through the immense beauty of Western Canada, but also through history, to a time when “luxury” meant more than just a mint on your pillow and “service” meant that there was nothing else to wish for. Kingdom’s James Gannon takes an amazing ride… […]
