by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text and photos ©2012 Burma is now on many world travelers’ “A” list. With the release of Nobel Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest last year and her subsequent triumphant election campaign, tourism to the country is at an all-time high. Decades of...
by Bill Marsano | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Alliteration conjures treasures in the Veneto. Venice, Verona, Vicenza come readily to mind, and a fourth joins them in an old folkloric rhyme: Veneziani, gran signori; Padovani, gran dottori; Vicentini, mangia gatti; Veronesi, tutti matti. Freely...
by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
© 2011 A painting made me do it. I’m not sure whether it was “Purple Hills II” or “LavenderHill with Green 1952” that gave me the itch but when a friend gifted me with a coffee table book commemorating Georgia O’Keeffe’s artwork, I knew I had to set foot on the land...
by Bill Marsano | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text and photos ©2011 by Bill Marsano Languedoc-Roussillon is almost invariably short-changed. It’s blessed by lovely, lively Nîmes and dramatically walled Carcassone, but Provence just across the Rhone gleams with Avignon, Arles and Aix, with gritty Marseille and...
by Phyllis Meras | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text ©2010 Long ago, when Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, a compassionate angel, seeing the abandoned flowers weeping there, swooped down and gathered an armful of them to carry back to a happier home in Heaven. But as the angel flew across the Atlantic,...
by Curtis King | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text ©2010 I first visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in 1997. It was a quiet, charming capital city that had only recently opened up to the West. Traditional Vietnamese culture had not really been exposed to the modern outside world – most women still wore...
by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and Photos ©2010 by Lee Daley From cool and classy to centuries-old and traditional, Oaxaca never fails to entertain Whether it’s sassy and sultry, simmering with sensuality or slow and easy with a soothing after dinner drink, Oaxaca nightlife serves up...
by Lee Daley | Nov 9, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Photos and Text ©2009 Oaxaca’s appeal is so fundamental it’s a wonder this southern state of Mexico and its mile-high capital, Oaxaca [pronounced wah-HA-ka] City, are not more traveled. Blessed with year-round temperate climate, nearby archeological ruins,...
by Phyllis Meras | Nov 9, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text & photos ©2010 What could be better at any time of year than chocolate? And what could be a better place to sample it than Flanders, Belgium? I have recently returned from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. I have enjoyed its many...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 7, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text © 2009 by Scott W Clemens Hailed by Coastal Living magazine as one of the “Top Ten Seafood and Wine Festivals,” and held in Portland, dubbed “The foodiest Small Town in America” by Andrew Knowlton of Bon Appetit magazine, I looked forward with pleasant...
by Lee Daley | Nov 6, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and photos © by Lee Daley While spending a week in San Miguel de Allende, a city in the Mexican highlands that I love, I heard stories of a nearby ghost town that has gained new footing as a haven for artists. My curiosity was piqued by local expats around town,...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 6, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
By Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce Sicily is the melting-pot of the Mediterranean, having Phoenician, Greek, Roman, Arabic, Norman, Germanic and French influences, and sitting down to a meal in Palermo is much more than stopping in at the local fast food franchise....
