Tomorrow afternoon, I’m off to Wales for a week. I’ll be flying to Manchester and then taking the train to Llandudno, a Victorian seaside town on the North coast of Wales. It’s an excellent base to visit the medieval town of Conwy and Snowdonia National Park, which has the highest mountains in the UK outside […]
No one would ever call me a big sports fan. (Unless they were being sarcastic.) But there is one sporting event that I love and that I have gone to for the last several years: The US Open. Most of the year, the game of tennis doesn’t even cross my mind. But that all changes […]
It’s one of the great ironies of hotels that the higher room rate, the less likely it is to include breakfast. And if you want a good laugh, just take a look at the room service menu, where breakfast always seems to have the highest markup. And the hotels make the morning meal so tempting, […]
Connecticut is full of charming towns. Yet as cute and authentic as these towns may be, they usually don’t offer much to do. That’s what separates Lakeville, CT, from the rest. Lakeville is famous for — you guessed it — its lake. Lake Wononscopomuc, which everyone refers to as The Lakeville Lake, is the deepest […]
So far, the weather has been gorgeous for this Labor Day Weekend. At least it has been in Ridgefield, CT. Last year, the weather was perfect too. I was in Kennebunkport, ME, and amazingly enough it was in the 80s and sunny for the entire time. Quite unusual for Maine!
If you're in need of a crash course in American history, don't crack open your old text book. Just head to Philadelphia where around two hours of intense sightseeing can give you a greater understanding of how our country began as well as a large dose of patriotic pride. Even more good news? Most of […]
Welcome to the ninth edition of the Anywhere, Everywhere Travel Blog Carnival. The carnival takes place every other Monday and features some of the best travel writing and photography on the web. As usual, I received lots of great submissions; here are my favorites. Marina K. Villatoro presents The Travel Expert(a): Corcovado National Park – […]
(Photos by Amanda Lobell) When it's your first time in Paris, you're under a lot of pressure. You have to see the Louvre, Notre Dame, Luxembourg Gardens, Montmartre — and that's usually just in the first 24 hours. But when you've visited Paris (or any other great city) several times before, you can relax and […]
San Gimignano earned a spot on our Tuscany day trip itinerary with its nickname: The Medieval Manhattan. As a lifelong New Yorker, I’m always curious to see anything that’s compared to New York. San Gimignano is a small town, but it’s famous for its tall stone towers (pictured above) look like skyscrapers. Only 14 remain, […]
On our day trip through Tuscany, we wanted to visit two of the regions of greatest hits: Siena and San Gimignano. After a great lunch at La Bottega in Volpaia, we took the windy backroads to Siena, which is famous for its enormous fan-shaped Piazza del Campo (the mouth of which is pictured above). For […]
