My sister Jill and brother-in-law Jonathan discovered this fantastic, year-old bistro in West Los Angeles. Called Nook, it’s a great little place that seats about 50 folks. We were served bowls of boiled peanuts for appetizers. Owner Brian said, “If you don’t like them, it lowers your expectations for the entrees.” These hot, soggy peanuts…
Back in 1834, the city’s first hotel opened its doors to world statesmen and global travellers. Now, after a year of costly renovations, the legendary Hotel des Bergues Geneva has reopened as Switzerland’s first and only Four Seasons Hotel. Located in the city center on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva, your room may offer…
For world-class museums, my home town of San Francisco has an embarrassment of riches. I’ve long loved the SF Museum of Modern Art and the recently rebuilt Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Now, they’re joined by the totally revitalized, copper-clad M.H. de Young Museum, which reopened in the heart of Golden Gate Park in…
Boston has hundreds, if not thousands, of historic buildings, so it’s refreshing to find a new-fangled boutique hotel like The Onyx –– a one-of-a-kind Kimpton Hotel with an energy, personality and pulse of its own. The Onyx Hotel offers luxury accommodations in the neighborhood featuring the TD Banknorth Garden (Fleet Center), Faneuil Hall and North…
When a concert takes place on the same floor where the San Jose Sharks host hockey games, “cool” is the operative word. And cool best describes the 36-song, 2-encore, 2 hour, 40 minute Paul McCartney concert we witnessed last night that’s still giving us a buzz. Though he’ll be 64 next year — and though…
Mrs. Paul McCartney, AKA Heather Mills McCartney, is the Goodwill Ambassador and Patron of Adopt A Minefield. Thanks to a new partnership between AAM and Von Dutch, when you buy a purchase of a ‘No More Landmines’ T-shirt, you’ll help spread awareness of the global landmine crisis and raise much needed funds to clear landmines…
Vagablond can’t necessarily get if for you wholesale, but if you want to find a Jewish museum in Rio, kosher pizza in Sao Paulo, a monument to Golda Meir in Montevideo, or kosher tacos in Mexico City, check out “A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean & South America” by Ben G. Frank. Like your…
We just love the robustness of The Seagate Pocket Drive, a easy, compact way to carry up to 5GB of files, music, photos, video, and more. These elegant, palm-sized drives can fit in your pocket (hence the name), yet they safely store much larger files than the smaller 512MB or 1GB portable drives you’ve seen…
What single word best describes Smart Travelling? This travel boutique in an alley in Berlin’s hip Mitte district, is intelligent… brilliant… savvy… and just plain smart. It’s a Web-based service that features information about 24 Western European cities with memberships starting at 19 Euros annually. Its bi-lingual (German/English) site says: “Smart-travelling is devised for determined…
I’ve ridden in a Lincoln Towncar, a Limo and dozens of Yellow Cabs in Manhattan. Except for the sidewalk gawkers trying to stare through the smoked windows of the first two, they’re all pretty much the same. But now, there’s OZOcar –– calling itself New York’s first and only eco-luxury car service. With the entire…
For price, style, location and convenience, the Honigmond Garden Hotel is one of Berlin’s most popular boutique hotels. With its uber trendy Mitte neighborhood location, you’re just a short bus ride or walk from one of the Kastanienallee district. You’re also a block from the shops on Friedrichstrasse. The Honigmond offers gorgeous stylish apartments, a…
Want to track a flight for someone arriving in your city? Curious about the real-time action at airports worldwide? Meet FlightAware, your go-to app for all things flight tracking. FlightAware’s proprietory flight arrival time algorithms are combined with a powerful, intuitive and reliable Web-based interface to yield the Internet’s most capable, useful flight tracking application….