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While flying into Barcelona I got a tingly vibe telling me that I’m gonna love this city. First, we flew over the beach front. I look down seeing winding roads dotted with lights snuggled up to the vastness of the Med. Generous expanse of sand. Then the airport came into...
This is how some people might feel after a visit to the Denver Art Museum–upside down and all discombobulated. A recent visit to the Denver Art Museum (DAM) certainly left me perplexed. What to think about this controversial structure? Is it an interesting urban sculpture or tortured...
Who would have thought that when I took the elevator to the roof of a really big museum in NYC in search of a chicken sandwich, I would find 5,000 sticks of bamboo seemingly randomly lashed together. Here’s the story. In May I enjoyed a couple of days in NYC. While I was there I […]
Yesterday I wrote about my favorite things to do in Paris and asked for readers to respond with ideas of their own. Well, I got lucky. John Brosky, formerly of Grand Rapids, Mi shared his thoughts and generously agreed to let me post them here. He is a free lance writer living in Paris with...
A young film editor from Chicago asked me recently if there are any things that I always do when I go to Paris. We were sitting next to each other at a Hidden Kitchen dinner in Paris discussing the fact it was her first trip to Paris and my tenth. The question has intrigued me […]
A couple of years ago some friends of ours visited Paris, enjoying a long weekend with some friends of theirs who were living in the City of Light and attending the Cordon Bleu. They returned with tales of taking a canal ride in Paris. Hmmm. This had me a intriqued. Yes, I think of...
The world media is buzzing about the World’s Fair in Shanghai right now. The humungous event is expected to be the largest ever with some 70 million visitors in the six months that it is open. They are talking about the giant octopus, an alpine meadow and an apple shaped “green...
Please enjoy these scenes of Lake Tahoe spotted as we drove to the Reno Airport, a fabulous view of The Great Salt Lake and surrounding mountains in Utah from my window seat in the plane and a Happy Guy in the Denver airport. I did. Next Destination: Breckenridge, Colorado.
Design Diversion I’m taking a little diversion today from the kind of posts I normally do. The reason: I found a list of travel guidelines in an old journal not too long ago and have been thinking about them ever since. The journal contained scribbled notes from a trip to Chile with my son and...
If distant choo choo of a train gives you the urge to travel, then consider a ride on the Rovos Rail in South Africa. This beautifully restored world class train is a delightful way to see the beautiful landscape of an amazing continent. I knew when I arrived at the elegant station in...