Merhaba! I recently had an opportunity to travel to Turkey with a group of family members including my 10 and 7-year-old daughters to attend a wedding. I had heard great things about Turkey and was very excited about the trip. I was also looking forward to exposing my children to such a different culture than what [...]
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Mosques and Fairy Chimneys – A Turkey family trip to Istanbul & Cappadocia
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Asia, Europe, Family Travel, Food, History, Hotel reviews, Travel on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Castles Along the Rhine: A Uniworld Boutique River Cruise
Posted in Cruising, Europe, Food, Group travel, River cruising, Travel, Travel tips on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our voyage began with an extended stay in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam is a beautiful, bustling city which offers a variety of walking tours that I highly recommend. I chose to be adventurous and stroll through the old city on my own following a printed walking tour from Frommer’s which took about 3 hours. This tour [...]
The Homestead – A Virginia mountain retreat with old world charm
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Family Travel, Food, Golf Travel, Group travel, Hotel reviews, Nature, North America, Romance, Travel on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As we drove into Hot Springs and I looked up over the tree tops and saw the clock on the Homestead’s impressive and distinctive red brick clock tower, I realized that this was no ordinary deluxe resort. This first impression was over twenty years ago and yet I still get that excited feeling when I [...]
*A traveler writes from Italy – Padova
Posted in Europe, Food, History, Travel on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Currently in Padova. It is unusually hot and humid today. Thank goodness the hotel is very good, with excellent AC. Many stores, restaurants and buses don’t have it. Yesterday we went on an outing on buses and on a boat (burchiello) down the Brenta River, which connects Padova and Venice. There are 2000 villas built starting [...]
*Costa Rica – Food for thought
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Beach, Food, Latin America, Nature, Travel on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gallo Pinto? Pejibaye soup? No, I’m not really a “foodie”, but my recent trip to Costa Rica has me daydreaming about the superb native dishes made with the freshest ingredients. In this gem of a country you can fish in the ocean and have your catch prepared to your liking that same evening at a [...]
*Hawaii – A four island family vacation. Part 4: Maui
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Beach, Family Travel, Food, Hawaii, Hotel reviews, Nature, Travel on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One thing I love about Maui is that you can choose to fill your time there with very diverse and exciting activities or you can choose to do nothing at all and still have a great time. Having done quite a bit of sightseeing on the other islands, we had decided in advance that we [...]
*Hawaii – A four island family vacation. Part 3: Kauai
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Beach, Family Travel, Food, Hawaii, Travel on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We arrived in Lihu’e, Kauai in the early afternoon and quickly picked up our rental car. We were excited to get to our resort, located on the south side of the island, which I knew would be one of the highlights of our trip. From the second we arrived at the Grand Hyatt Kauai, we [...]
*Hawaii – A four island family vacation. Part 2: The Big Island-Volcanoes National Park
Posted in Adventure/active travel, Beach, Family Travel, Food, Hawaii, Nature, Travel on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On our way to breakfast this morning we walked along Waikiki beach and after a quick rain shower, we were rewarded with a beautiful rainbow, our fist one of the trip! We then left for the airport and got on an early flight of about 50 minutes to Hilo, on the eastern coast of Hawaii (better [...]
