I just ran across some interesting facts about the Blogosphere. Currently, there are: • 50 million regular blog readers; • 75,000 new blogs a day; • 1.2 million posts daily; • 50,000 blog updates an hour. Granted, that’s a whole lotta blogging and travel blogs represent only a percentage of it all. So that’s even…
My friend Elisa just returned from a week at the tré upscale Canyon Ranch Spa in the Santa Catalina Mountains above Tucson. She opted for the all-inclusive package with meals and spa treatments included daily at what they say is “The world’s most renowned wellness lifestyle company.” That’s a whole lot of pampering and she…
I once had a heated word battle across a pool table with Grace Slick, very late one night at a recording studio in San Francisco. She was cutting a Jefferson Airplane album and I was producing some radio commercials. She called me “Four Eyes” and it was all downhill from there. Anyway, speaking of the…
I caught part of a TV program this weekend on my local ABC affliliate called “Travel in Style.” The Director of Sales and Marketing at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island said that more upscale travelers are sailing their own yachts there, parking them in their harbor, booking a suite of rooms, then taking day…
Here’s a great promotion sponsored by S. Pellegrino Sparkling Natural Mineral Water. From today through September 29, you can enjoy gourmet, three-course prix-fixe meals in San francisco’s finest restaurants. Pay just $20 for Lunches and $35 for Dinners during the Fifth Annual Dine Out San Francisco. The menus will also include a complimentary bottle of…
This just in from CNN.com, per an anonymous Homeland Security Department official… Starting today, the US government will be partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners. So most liquids and gels will now be allowed on planes. Read the story.
I’m blessed to live about 20 minutes from Viansa Winery in heralded Sonoma county. Located amid rolling hills reminiscent of Tuscany, this winery touts a huge Italian Marketplace that celebrates the marriage of fine wine and gourmet food. One of my favorites here is the Dark Chocolate Dolcetti, a rich chocolate syrup blended with Cabernet…
It was bound to happen. First, you could buy music in stores. Then you bought music online. Now, in an iFood terminal at Stockholm’s way upscale Nordiska Kompaniet’s food hall, you can actually download audio recipes onto your iPod, then buy the ingredients right there. The store describes the process thusly (in Swedish): 1) Docka…
Here’s an update on the world’s most unique luxury escape, Poseidon Undersea Resort, on private islands in Fiji and the Bahamas, where guests can glide to their $1,500-a-night underwater abodes by escalator.
This was my third visit to the Louvre. I remember the first time I got busted by a security guard for snapping a photo of The Mona Lisa. That was years ago, and on this most recent visit, Ms. Mona had relocated to her own space in the Salle des Etats. The lines to see…
Want to see San Francisco and mingle with like-minded folks? Here’s your opportunity… My pal and CEO (Chief Expedition Officer) of The Urban Safari, Daniel Oppenheim, is conducting gender-specific and sexual orientation-specific focus groups over the next two weeks. So if you’re single and would like to give ideas, be creative, wiling to talk, have…
I’ve stayed at the Disneyland Hotel decades ago when I met Walt Disney, plus another Disney resort next to it a few years ago. But the fairest of them all is now Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, which Ava, Vagablond’s co-founder calls “the Catskills meeting the most Magical Place on Earth”. It offers you:•…