Budget Travel is featuring a really fun Top Ten list - the top ten places to spend New Year’s Eve.
Now, normally I don’t love top ten lists. They always sound like they’re written by the PR team of each hotel, spa, city, event or restaurant. But these parties - well, they [...]
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**This is an entry from way back, summer of 2006, I believe. I’m on a deadline with a client, so you’re getting archive treats!
Brunch at Auntie Lu’s English Restaurant - most of their tables were outside, accommodating a group of 12 women celebrating their friend’s impending trip around the world by taking her out [...]
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I love eating cold sandwiches wrapped in tin foil. It is such a sense memory thing.
I am thinking of great hotel rooms in my time, in no order:
- Helmsley Middletown, NYC. My old company booked me in a room when they made me come to NY and I got upgraded to a suite, with [...]
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It appears that my life of leisure has an official name, courtesy of Microsoft.
I am a moofer. I moof, apparently.
I’ve been moofing for years now. And you should see me moof; it’s quite a sight. I’ve moofed in a hotel room overlooking the Bay of Biscay in San Sebastian, Spain; on a [...]
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Compounded by a horribly written public notice!
Glad to see America isn’t the only spell-check-deprived nation.
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Every Wednesday, several of us get together for what I call “Girls and Gays Night,” and what Fiona calls “Tapas Anonymous Meetings.” Whatever they are, no heterosexual men are allowed. We meet at our favorite wine bar, order plates of tapas and drink Tempranillo wine.
One of the weekly participants is Vik - she [...]
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Follows my ultimate wish/goal list for 2008.
Reality be damned. I’m shooting for the stars here.
1. I want to get my book published as part of a two-book deal, with me a hefty advance to write the sequel.
2. I want to move to Italy. I’ll let the universe decide where in that country, since I [...]
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There was an interesting article in the New York Times about the apparent decline in services, amenities and even common courtesy in the cheap seats on airplanes. OK, well, the article’s alright but they received over 400 comments on it, and the comments are where all the action is. The comments range from [...]
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Hello dear hearts. I’ve been getting a lot of queries lately about how to pronounce the names of Italian cities - so, without further ado, let’s pronounce them correctly!
As explained in previous pronunciation guides, my pronunciation spelling overcompensates for the American pronunciation of the letter “e.”
Rome = Roma = ROAM-ah
Milan = Milano = meal-AH-no
Venice [...]
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An online friend recently alerted me to a blog called Hello Kitty Hell, which hilariously tells the story of one man’s ordeal living with a Hello Kitty fanatic in Japan.
Within this site it a travel section filled with the details of such unlikely but real items as Hello Kitty barf bags and an entire Hello [...]
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