by Will Ottley | Oct 22, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Will Ottley visits the French City of Bordeaux and discovers exemplary organic wine. Bordeaux became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007. Synonymous with the French wine trade, the city has 376 listed monuments dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Bordeaux...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 7, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
It is impossible to feel lukewarm about Venice. The historian Edward Gibbon, author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, complained about “its stinking ditches dignified with the pompous denomination of canals, while novelist D.H. Lawrence called her an...
by Lisa Richardson | Oct 6, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
It’s not as though I was surprised those three days in Carmel-by-the-Sea were so pleasurable. How surely this one square mile penetrated my psyche was the zinger. Homebound along the Salinas Highway, smiling at the fog as it tended the vines in the Highlands beyond,...
by Jan Ross | Oct 6, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
There is a lot to enjoy in the charming small town of Racine, Wisconsin. Located on the shore of beautiful Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Chicago, Racine has lovely beaches, parks and trails; Frank Lloyd Wright architecture; an amazing art museum; zoo; and the...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 4, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Born in Castelrotto on December 27, 1914, Zenzi Glatt came to live in Merano when she was 10 years old because of its better schools and has lived here ever since. She is a pioneer of hospitality. In 1948 she opened Pension Mignon and soon opened up a beauty...
by Bill Marsano | Sep 30, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
© 2015 by Bill Marsano photos by Scott Clemens This is, I imagine, telling tales out of school, but tell I must. It’s a good tale, which is the best of all possible reasons, and its star, my friend K., is too shy to write it herself, although I have pestered her to do...
by Noreen Kompanik | Sep 27, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
“Casual dining by the sea” is how the concierge described Punta Bonita Restaurante, located on the pristine beaches of the Riviera Maya. That description didn’t even come close to capturing the essence of our visit to Mayakoba or our exquisite, memorable...
by Lucy Gordan | Sep 24, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
By now everyone knows that Pope Francis lives simply in the Casa Marta guesthouse and not in the elegant Papal Apartments overlooking St. Peter’s Square where he does, however, receive important guests and bless the crowd below during the Angelus on Sundays at noon....
by Lisa Richardson | Sep 5, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Our 550 km adventure swept us northward from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal to two regions within Québec, Canada’s largest province. The aerial approach to YUL hinted at the watery proportions below, as did the myriad blue squiggles on my...
by Laurel-Ann Dooley | Aug 16, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
You’ve wanted to go to Italy your whole life, and now the dream is coming true. You can already taste the fresh mozzarella in Rome and hear the soft, rhythmic splash of the gondolier’s oar as it slowly propels you through the quiet, moonlit canals of...
by Catherine Hedge | Jul 7, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
St. Augustine, Florida is like an ancient Castilian princesa. Dressed in a gown of grass-green velvet, draped in a veil of Spanish moss, she invites you to celebrate her 450th birthday, September 4-8, 2015. She wants you to know all her long and diverse...
by Scott W. Clemens | May 27, 2015 | Travel, Travel blog
Every so often one stumbles upon a culinary gem in the most unexpected place, as happened to me recently on a visit to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. Even without the restaurant, a visit to the institute would be worth a side trip if...
