Changing Lanes: The Drive to Dingle

There are a few significant moments in a woman’s life when she feels like she can conquer the world: graduating from high school/college, getting your first promotion, buying your first home, walking down the isle, and bringing a new life into the world, with or without an epidural, are just a few of the moments [...]

Escape Routes: Buenos Aires for Single Travelers

Yes, it does take two to tango, but Buenos Aires is one of the most single-friendly (and romantic!) cities in the world. Where else can you walk into an elegant turn-of-the-century café and be whisked off your feet to dance the tango by a handsome stranger in a fedora and pinstriped suit? And where else [...]

Arrive in Style: Five Easy Pieces

Isabella Rossellini once told me that when she traveled she brought everything she needed in one small carry-on bag. She’d pack a few great white shirts, a simple dress, pants, some scarves to dress it up and a few pieces of essential makeup. Two different shades of lipstick were also one of her must-have’s. “They [...]

Bond Girl Getaways: What’s Your Traveling Style? Jinx, Honey, Vesper?

OK, so when “Bond Girls” first hit the silver screen they were icons of sexual stereotypes—big-busted sexually rapacious sirens whose only desire was to get James Bond in bed. But let’s practice a little SMW revisionist thinking here. They were also all single, traveling girls who knew what they wanted and how to get it. [...]

SMW Road Show: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

“Every woman has her day” is the slogan for this bon mot of a movie, starring the incomparable Frances McDormand and Hollywood’s new golden (strawberry blonde?) girl, Amy Adams.
When a out-of-work governess wheedles her way into a job as personal assistant to an American stage actress who juggles her boyfriends for a shot at the [...]

Escapes Confidential: WAITING TO EXHALE? Don’t Hold Your Breath

t’s many women’s fantasy and the subject of the book and film, Waiting to Exhale. You arrive in an exotic destination and are instantly swept off your feet by a dashing local. He’s got a six pack of abs you could bounce your worthless US change off of, he’s great in bed and loves real [...]

The Boutique Hotel Has Just Morphed Again: Hyatt’s All-Inclusive Andaz

Singleminded road warriors have a new resource in Hyatt’s brand new brand, the Andaz. Just opened in London’s East End and slated for New York in 2010, the Andaz brand is boutique with a twist – like the original Sandals concept, Andaz is luring travelers with an all inclusive pricing concept, which makes it a [...]

Flying Solo: Health and Wellness for the Single Traveler

For most people the idea of being sick on a vacation is scary. That turns into really scary when you’re traveling solo. But travel long and hard enough and you’ll find that you’ll have to deal with this issue somewhere, somehow. Like most things in life, it’s how you handle that that defines you as [...]