People ask me if I play golf. No, not anymore. I’ve tried and it just never got easy or enjoyable for me. But my late husband would always answer that he loved to hit a small white ball around a golf course. He’d also add that calling what he did as ‘playing’ was extremely generous….
I contend that it takes a lot to earn the dubious honor of Worst Tour Guide in the World. Two years after a tour to China, I am absolutely certain I have not only met the Worst Tour Guide in the World, but also barely survived a day with her. How Our Experience With the Worst Tour…
The Buena Vista Social Club is a remarkable ad-hoc group of performers in Cuba who light up Havana’s nightlife with their classic Afro-Cuban sound. Revisit a long forgotten grand age of Cuba nightly at the Sociedad Cultural Rosalia de Castro in Havana.
Today our Instagram feed was live from Nassau Bahamas for several hours. We were here as part of our week on Norwegian Sky. Live From Nassau We spent the day with Tru Bahamian Food Tours on their Taste of Nassau tour. If you know how picky we are about shore excursions then you know we were…
Sometimes my sole goal in a city is to experience one taste that I’ve craved from a previous visit. On a recent visit to Istanbul, that was balik ekmek. I’d previously tried the famous fish sandwich sold under the Galata Bridge (and in other spots around Istanbul which is where I had my first taste…
I’m not always a fan of organized tours. I consider myself to be more of an experiential traveler where my idea of a great day in a new city involves random wandering about the streets, a visit to one site (major or minor), and a lot of lazy people watching done from a sidewalk café…
I’m a sucker for a good food tour. To me, there is no better way to see a great city than to eat my way through it. And what better way to do that than with a local foodie as a guide? Barcelona was the first real stop on my Grand Mediterranean adventure and where…
I am not one to jump on the fad bandwagon. And celebrity endorsements don’t make me want to try things I might not otherwise. But when I’m traveling abroad, I’m usually game to try a local treatment or two. I journeyed to Beijing for Memorial Day weekend thanks to the now infamous $400-ish business class…
I like Bali. The part I like most is the part that is less traversed. It seems like everyone has been to the southern part of the island. And more individuals have discovered Ubud since Elizabeth Gilbert put it on the map in Eat Pray Love. But a majority of visitors to this island paradise…
I never do anything the easy way. If I did, then I would have been content with seeing a live Komodo dragon living a mere three miles from my house, safely enclosed, at the Fort Worth Zoo. But no. I have to do things the hard way. And thus one of the major draws of…
Sex and the City may have finished its HBO run over a decade ago – and hopefully its movie reincarnation after a train wreck of a romp through the United Arab Emirates a few years later (they got the designer obsessions correct at least, even if they did stomp on the culture in the process!) And yet…
Its easy to build up expectations before some of the world’s most famous attractions based on photos, travel guide hype, or even just imagined perceptions. But sometimes the reality can lead to tourist attractions surprises. I remember being shocked when I first visited Red Square in Moscow in 1989. I always imagined it as being much…