well read - The National Book Festival
Now in its tenth year, the National Book Festival, organised by the Library of Congress, is held on September 25 at the National Mall in Washington, DC, to celebrate the joy of reading.
insight - Hobie Alter
AT THE AGE OF 16 a youngster nicknamed Hobie started crafting surfboards in his backyard. They became legendary in their own right – but not nearly as legendary as the catamarans that bear his name.
insight - Dr. Coddington
Occupation - Associate Director of Research and Collections
In 1910 a new museum called the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first opened its doors to the public on Washington’s National Mall. Dedicated to ‘understanding the natural world and our place in it’, it was the third museum in the expanding Smithsonian Institution.
Summer’s Sweetest Fruit: The Big Apple
Whether you’re seeking music and the arts, walking tree-lined paths or shore-hugging boardwalks, choosing fine wines from abundant vineyards or hovering above the spectrum of colours of summer leaves, there
is no place quite like New York to enjoy summer.
well read - New York Book Festival
As Qatar Airways celebrates its third anniversary of flights to New York this month, the New York Book Festival celebrates books worthy of greater attention in the world’s publishing capital with an annual competition and festival.
Allegria Hotel, Long Island
Enjoy a ‘best of both worlds’ experience that offers the exclusivity and splendour of a beachfront setting only a half-hour from the thrills and sights of New York City.
Houston Under Ground
When Houston’s blanketing humidity drapes downtown, follow the locals underground to the city’s subterranean world. Below street level in climate-controlled coolness, the myriad shops and services of the Houston tunnel system give visitors a taste of local life.
Houston’s, Buffalo Bayou
Afloat on the Buffalo Bayou, visitors gain a unique perspective on the USA’s fourth largest city. Houston’s central waterway flows past woodlands dense with cypress trees toward the city’s sparkling skyscrapers and urban gardens, before continuing to Galveston Bay and the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Mexico.
