by janecanapini | Mar 9, 2019 | Architecture, Attractions, United States
If you’ve ever read Ayn Rand’s book, The Fountainhead, whose protagonist is a visionary architect, you should visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. Even if you haven’t read the book, you should still go on a...
by janecanapini | Feb 17, 2019 | Accommodations, Architecture, Buffalo, United States
I always say, why stay in a hotel when you can stay in a story? It’s the kind of philosophy that has led Henk and I to sleep in a spherical treehouse, play Tarzan and Jane in a tropical hideaway, and more recently, check ourselves into a former insane asylum,...
by janecanapini | Oct 20, 2018 | Architecture, Buffalo, United States
Visiting Fallingwater several years ago made me a committed fan of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and since then I look for every opportunity to step inside one of his innovative structures. Luckily for Henk and I, we live in Toronto, a 90-minute drive from...
by janecanapini | Jul 19, 2018 | Architecture, Cuba, Food & Drink
Even for people who have been to Cuba many times, it’s difficult to describe Cuban culture in a nutshell. Not just because of its complicated political history, but also because of the influences that have shaped it: geography, slavery, European colonization, Latin...
