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A few weeks ago, when I was visiting friends in LA, I smiled in sympathy when one of them confessed that not a week goes by when he doesn't want to ditch his job and go out into the garden instead. (And this friend has a great job – although I suspect he would also make a great garden designer.) Who doesn't dream of taking time off from their responsibilities in order to hide in the garden for a

One of the highlights of travel is discovering new places. I always feel fortunate to have many friends who travel, and who are fantastically generous with their travel recs. I'm so grateful to them, because their suggestions always lead to great places that I wouldn't normally find through a guidebook or magazine article – or simply wouldn't think of visiting. That's the thing I love most about