Comments on the style saloniste: Jet Set Survival

Hi Diane, Brian just let me know about your new bl...

2009-06-24T08:01:30.546-07:00

Hi Diane, Brian just let me know about your new blog and I immediately went straight to this post, LOVE the pragmatic advice for my next trip to Provence and beyond. Your blog is wonderfully informative and "devour-able"...kudos again to you as you enter the "ether"! Kit

Hi Lisa- I just acquired THE BOLTER! We are on th...

2009-06-03T17:27:48.511-07:00

Hi Lisa-

I just acquired THE BOLTER! We are on the same page. I am reading it next...while I am in an 'English Aristocracy gone wild' frame of mine from reading 'Diana Mosley'. I note Idina's photos--she is no great beauty--and I hope to find out the secret of her serial affairs, flightiness, and unquenchable desire for adventure.
I've also got, in the wings, All Passion Spent...I think I have you to thank for that. Oh, and two other MITFORD fans in LA are NICK HARVILL who I am sure you know, as well as PRISCILLA, a manager at Hollyhock, a rabid Mitford follower.

Oh, Diane...thank you! Regarding Hatchards, it'...

2009-06-03T17:08:13.907-07:00

Oh, Diane...thank you! Regarding Hatchards, it's so nice to be able to talk about it with someone who loves it as well. I always stop there immediately upon landing in London and grab a stack of books, and I peruse their online catalog to get inspired. Did you read "The Bolter"? I bought it there in March, but it's out in the US now -- it's a bio of scandalous Lady Idina Sackville. You would love it. It's so nice to "meet" a kindred soul...England and India are two of my passions, and I can see they are for you as well!

Also, please let me know if you ever come to LA -- I would love to take you out to lunch! (Somewhere fabulous, of course) xx

HI LISA- I am honored you are visiting my blog! I&...

2009-06-03T16:41:44.071-07:00

HI LISA-
I am honored you are visiting my blog!
I've been following your brilliant blog for some time--and you really grabbed my attention when you went to London, planned your son's days superbly and with great inventiveness, and then introduced your readers to Persephone Books! I ordered dozens--some just for the cover I have to admit, and all of them so individual and non-commercial and a slice of life. I've also dived into "Lucia'...and they are charming and escapist, indeed.
Your book taste and enthusiasm are very Anglophile-my taste, precisely. I hope you subscribe to the Hatchard's catalog, and especially that you get updates, through email, of signed books (Debo!) and new books. They will air freight books, which fulfills the endless desire for new books.
Keep on listing great books: you have such a sense of adventure and originality.
Travel: you are right that 'surviving flight' means re-thinking the concept. It especially means doing your own thing--and not doing what the airline has planned (hours of eating bad food, hours of drinking, lights full on, all those videos,) a certain way to be dead on arrival. Taking control, ensuring your own comfort and travel health--essential.
So happy you are adding me to your blog roll.
You will go on mine in next few days! Bravo.

PS -- I just want to say how honored I am that you...

2009-06-03T11:36:59.701-07:00

PS -- I just want to say how honored I am that you frequent my blog. I have so many of your books! I am adding you to my blog list now... xxx

Diane, I love this post and absolutely agree with ...

2009-06-03T11:34:40.346-07:00

Diane, I love this post and absolutely agree with your travel advice. Once I stopped watching countless movies on long-haul flights and started sleeping instead (and restricting my eating), I felt soo much better on landing! My jet lag nearly disappeared. I flew from LA-London-Delhi last year and even after all those endless hours, I was really no worse for the wear.

PS -- I stayed at the Rambagh Palace as well...lovely place.

Everyone has a way of flying, incidental or planne...

2009-06-02T12:29:45.533-07:00

Everyone has a way of flying, incidental or planned.

I follow this plan posted above, beginning when I am packing. I make sure to have a fresh pillowcase on my pillow for the flight. I shake out and roll up the cashmere throw. Williams Sonoma Home cashmere throws are offered in a great selection of colors--and the WSH fringed cashmere throw (which you can have monogrammed) rolls up into a very transportable 'blanket'. I use my own pillow and blanket, even in biz class or F.
And I have friends who love to get on the plane, sip Champagne, dine for hours, and watch movies, drink more wine, snooze for an hour or two. I salute them.
I've worked out my 'survival' plan on flights from SFO-FRA-DEL (about 24 hours door to door). I slept most of the way. I then flew on to Jaipur, checked in at the Rambagh, and am ready to go.Same from SFO-Copenhagen- Stockholm. Sleep, rest, read, sleep--and arrive at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, and head straight out to the archipelago for lunch on Vaxholm, or a drive to see the Haga Pavilion. My idea of heaven.

I felt sleepy already reading your post, so calmin...

2009-06-02T11:29:47.307-07:00

I felt sleepy already reading your post, so calming and comforting. One thing I add to the routine, same as mine (a part of one meal and a glass of wine) is to set, immediately after boarding, my watch to the destination time and never try to figure what time it would be at home. It does help.