Earlier this year, I channelled Jennifer Coolidge from The White Lotus and transformed into a glamorous other (even if my dress was only $14.90).
Packing my toiletry bag for a recent overseas trip, I added an item rarely used at home. Dental floss and I aren’t best friends . I always promise her I’ll take up the flossing habit but don’t – until I’m in a luxury hotel room peering at myself in the gleaming bathroom mirror. Then I’m flossing those chompers as if it’s always part of my routine.This behavioural quirk is hard even for me to understand – but something comes over me when I’m heading off on a trip.
Countless fash-mag column inches have been devoted to Coolidge’s memorable Tanya looks. They include a trunk full of Dolce & Gabbana and a fairyfloss-pink Valentino chain bag. I don’t have the budget for snapping up any haute couture, but I do have an eye for spotting a slinky frock that would look right at home in the corridors of a historic convent turned luxury crash pad.
You might think you know where this is going, but White gives his plot as many hairpin turns as those roads connecting Taormina’s clifftop to the nearest beach. All I can say is that unlike Tanya, I live to floss another day.is a Sydney-based freelance travel writer with expertise in ABC . She’s been writing for Traveller since 2006.
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