The exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the British Pound is discouraging, to say the least. According to Google, £1 = $2.0038. This means you have to double the price in pounds to get the equivalent price in U.S. dollars. This makes the Guaranteed U.S. Dollar rates at The Ritz all the more amazing….
Several years ago, our family spent four nights on Australia’s Hamilton Island to “take a vacation from our vacation” from the rest of the continent. It was a welcome relief to do nothing but have fun and soak up the sun. Now that there’s a brand new spa opening up on the island, all the…
I just returned from a very fun and VERY Fattening Girlfriend Getaway to the port city of Charleston , S.C., where we joined Southern Foodways Alliance on its annual field trip. This year’s theme was “ Charleston, Citadel of the Lowcountry Culture and Cookery, which translates to “We deep-fry anything that moves and serve it…
There must be thousands of restaurants on Manhattan to feed the eight million New Yorkers who live there. Around the Great White Way at Times Square, there are literally hundreds. But we chose Etcetera, Etcetera last week on our only evening in Manhattan on our way to Boston because my wife had enjoyed dining at…
Death by Chocolate Slumber Party. Available all year and definitely for the chocoholic! Book three or four of the Fox River Inn B & B’s rooms with your friends for the ultimate lady’s getaway and slumber party. Check in at the Inn in the late morning (yummy personal chocolate treats from Two Sisters in Ottawa…
The Radisson Lexington Hotel sports some pretty impressive numbers. It’s completed a $20 million renovation — and it shows the moment you enter the redesigned high-tech lobby that’s sleek, fresh and colorful. It’s got an impressive 511 Lexington Avenue address at 48th Street in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and the fashionable East Side, about…
A Camp for Adults – Wine Camp in Long Island, NY: Located in the heart of Long Island Wine Country, with forty vineyards and wineries, guests can become amateur vintners in just four days during this wine immersion camp. Guests participate in seasonal vineyard work, then journey from the crush pad to the fermentation area…
Google was first a search engine, then a verb and then (in the US) finally a phone number to call to reference everything from movies times to addresses. Shanghai, unfortunately wasn’t so lucky. To help foreigners navigate the jungle that is Shanghai and the Chinese addresses associated with it, Shanghai has the Shanghai Call Center….
If your name is Zeimer, I’d strongly advise you NOT to fly American Airlines this week. First, my twin brother’s flight on American from SFO to Athens this coming Friday was cancelled. Though it’s the height of the summer travel season and it seems like everyone and his brother (including mine) is going to Europe,…
We met our friends Michael and Susan at Picco last weekend. This newish place is spacious, warm and friendly with a brick and wood setting. That alone would make you want to eat there. But the food is absolutely amazing because it offers local, seasonal, ingredient-driven plates with all ingredients grown or harvested within the…
Like a lot of people, I often rely on the advice and suggestions of family and friends. So when Eric Lindsay of Los Angeles e-mailed me about his recent stay with his wife at the Viceroy Santa Monica, I asked him to send me a review. Eric is an accomplished musician and composer, and he…
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