VirtuosoLife - January/February 2008 - (Page 39) BRIGHT SIGHT RAY COOL TAG Heuer’s new limited-edition L-Type rimless sunglasses look weightless from the front but carry heavyweight style profiles. Women’s models sport python-skin arms set with 23 diamonds, while men’s boast antique alligator. Only 500 models of each will be produced. $1,495 to $2,690; www.tagheuer.com for retailers Quebec kicks off a yearlong celebration in January. AEGEAN ODYSSEY three in one Ancient Greeks settled in Albania. Romans later ruled it, as did the Turks. Travcoa focuses on the marks left by each with a new 16-day trip to Albania, Macedonia, and northern Greece. The journey includes visits to the castle of fifteenth-century Albanian hero Skanderbeg, the Greek city of Apollonia, and the UNESCO-cited Roman ruins at Butrint. Departures: May 16, September 5, and October 3, 2008; from $7,995. YEAR TO REMEMBER Metéora monasteries cling to clifftops in Thessaly, Greece. party time in canada On July 3, 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain settled where the Saint Lawrence River narrows, fathering Quebec City for France. This year the capital of Francophone Canada celebrates its 400th birthday with ten months of festivities. Among the highlights: Quebec Winter Carnival’s Night Parade (February 9 and 16), with 24-foot-tall puppets and 1,200 extras; The Image Mill, a nightly multimedia show projected onto waterfront grain silos (June 20 through July 29); The Louvre in Quebec City, which brings rarely loaned art from Paris to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec (June 5 through October 26); and an “urban opera” that migrates from one city landmark to another (July 5). Cirque du Soleil blows out the candles with the debut of a show on October 19. www.monQuebec2008.com (QUEBEC) PHILIPPE RENAULT/ CORBIS, (MONASTERY) B. vAN dER ZEE J A N U A RY | F E B R U A RY 2 0 0 8 39 http://www.tagheuer.com http://www.monQuebec2008.com
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