I had never been to Venice during the sildenafil citrate 100mg viagra generika Festa del Redentore. It is quite a spectacle. Historically, the Redentore Festival is a celebration of the end of the 16th century plague when 50,000 Venetians died. The Santissimo Redentore Church, on the Giudecca Island, was designed by Andrea Palladio as a […]
I paid a visit to Rick and Nancy’s farm, Bear Meadow Apiary, in Ashfield, MA the other day. They keep chickens, grow vegetables, and also have a bunch of bee hives. Rick spends most Saturday’s educating me about bees at the farmers market, pointing out the difference between bumblebees and honeybees, and explaining his current […]
I have more airline miles than I need. Nearly 2 million. But I have a suspicion that my miles are going to be ripped away from me or I will throw them away on a ticket that is better paid for with cash. How could that be? You can always use miles to book hotels, […]
Not to flog a dead horse, but the sheer delight of travelling by train in Europe never grows old. I jumped into a taxi and headed to the Atocha train station to catch the AVE to Seville. Atocha is quite a delight. Nestled between the museums in a busy intersection, it has a lush tropical […]
It wasn’t that I had had enough of Madrid. I had spent my first night doing a tapas route while bumping into a bunch of teachers that I knew. As is the way, I ended up at the Chocolateria San Ginés, a café on Pasadizo de San Ginés in Central Madrid and is close to […]
Every year I get to spend a ski week with some old friends of mine from Italy and England. We have skied lots of places including the Dolomites, Vail and St Moritz but we always keep coming back to Zermatt. The link from Geneva airport to Zermatt is always a pleasure. At the airport the […]
I confess to not having much to do with the Arma Dei Carabinieri but I have always been slightly curious what role they play versus the polizia in Italy. Recently, I read an article that helped explain it. As it turns out, the carabinieri are celebrating their 200th birthday this year. In other words, they […]
So it happened to me at last. After 40+ uneventful years and fairly casual security on my part, my two passports were stolen. It happened in, you guessed it, Italy. A friend of mine rented out a villa in Umbria for a week. A few days there blew out my history of never having lost […]
Venice Italy is a strange and wonderful country. It is at once hopelessly inefficient, exasperating and unfathomable. Its regions are fiercely independent and culturally alien to each other. I had lunch with a Venetian recently who suggested a canal that would dissect Italy from West to East just cutting through the center of Florence. A […]
Of all of the days to get invited to the Shard for lunch, I chose the rainy day. Of course, this is London and chances are that you are going to be looking out at a cloudy sky and a damp landscape with lashing rain most days of the week. But hey – this is […]
Traveling as much as I do, I am always frustrated at the little things that drive me mad in hotels, otherwise known as my Hotel Pet Peeves. Recently, in the Flyertalk.com 2014 Pet Peeves Survey, people ranked the stuff that really bothered them. I have only one word to say, “Hallelujah”. Wireless internet is always […]
The 2014 FIFA World Cup is over and as the world renowned English soccer player and commentator, Gary Lineker, has famously stated, “Soccer is a game played between 22 players, it lasts 90 minutes with a potential of extra time with penalties, and the Germans always win!” How true indeed. This was a glorious four […]
At Zermatt the skier is faced with the enviable dilemma of choosing between two huge mountain ranges that span Switzerland and Italy. At the Gornegrat on the Swiss side, you have the comfortable option of riding the cog railway to the top piste. The journey takes about 20 minutes and with the exception of the […]
When I was a kid, I used to walk home from my swimming club and stop every Friday night at the fish and chips shop. I would buy myself six pennyworth of chips with crackling. The crackling referred to the batter that had separated from the fried fish. With lots of salt and vinegar the […]
I fly in and out of Boston’s Logan pretty frequently. It’s a comfortable airport to travel from although the facilities have always been challenging. Transportation links between airport and town are actually fantastic and ….free. And if u splurge on a taxi , it takes about 8 minutes to hit Faneuil Hall. Terminal E, which […]