Time Bends While I Travel
It’s always a bit hard adjusting to the regular life after a week away. One thing that’s always consistent about frequent travel is that it feels like I’ve been gone longer than I really have. In just one week, what really is new at home? Not that much. I always […]
Apoxyomenos Stands in a New Museum in Mali Losinj
Apoxyomenos is waiting for you at the top of a new four-story museum in Mali Losinj Croatia. The former Kvarner Palace, once home to one of the town’s rich sea captains, is now a beautiful new museum showcasing one of the greatest treasures ever recovered from the sea. The town […]
On the Island of Ilovik, a Seafood Feast Worthy of Poseidon
Croatia is famous for sailing. With more than 2000 islands off its coast, this is a place that is full of yachts and sailboats with a thousand years of nautical heritage. Today we climbed aboard a 42′ sailboat owned by the Jadranka Corp, owners of the Hotel Bellevue, and explored […]
Croatia, Where Have You Been All My Life?
Croatia where you been all my life? For a moment there, I almost didn’t take this weeklong trip to Croatia to visit these six hotels who invited me so generously. Yes I have work to do. Yes both money and time away can be tight. But when it really comes […]
Boutique Hotel Alhambra and Villa Hortensia on Losinj
Today we took a close-up look at two more five-star hotels that are part of the six hotels owned by Jadranka, a Croatian company, here in Mali Losinj. They are both located on either side of the big Bellevue Hotel, and were both built around the same time, 1912. The […]
Mali Losinj: Home to High Class Hotels
I’m up early at the Hotel Bellevue, my home for the week, in Mali Losinj, in Croatia’s Kvarner region, made up of five islands in the sparkling Adriatic sea. Yesterday was blustery and cold, as a result of bora, the north wind that’s famous in the winter for injecting a […]
Losinj, Croatia is my Next Destination
I am heading out today for a trip that starts in Boston, then NYC, then Venice. And then I will be joining several other US travel writers when we board a King Air private plane to fly from Venice over the Adriatic to the small island of Losinj, Croatia. We […]
Tesla Is a Driving Experience Like No Other
I’m just back from a trip to Silicon Valley. When my friend Iliana picked me up in Mountain View, she was driving her Telsa Model S. I quickly learned that this is truly a car like no other. Sleek, feature rich, thoughtfully designed, it’s like Apple made this car. And […]
My Tribe of Travel Professionals Provides Needed Sustenance
After a long day that just ended at 8:45 pm, my head is full to bursting with so many interesting conversations after meetings with 35 tourism board representatives and dozens of fellow travel writers here at Canada Media Market in San Francisco. Of all the places I learned about today, […]
Canada Media Market 2016: Flying West
Tomorrow I’m flying west, to San Francisco, where I’ll meet with my good friends who together run the publicity and press relations for all of the Canadian provinces. It’s all hands on deck at Canada Media Market, where each year it alternates between New York or San Francisco. Anyway, it’s […]
George Jones Never Knew What He Was Really Worth
There’s a new book out about singer George Jones, and the story in the WSJ had an audacious headline: ‘George Jones Was as Good as Sinatra.’ WOW! But in Ryan Cole’s review of the new Jones biography, “The Grand Tour” by Rich Kienzle, he makes a claim, and I’d have […]
Going on Google Plus to Share Ideas
I about to jump into a Google Plus hangout with a friend, Deb Thompson, a fellow website publisher who lives in Cadillac Michigan. Working at home makes me enjoy setting up these ‘visits’ where we can both see each other on screen, and we can share ideas and complaints about […]
Gould’s is Where You Go for Pancakes!
Helen Gould is a ‘Greenfield girl.” She told us that when we visited Gould’s Sugar House, 570 Mohawk Trail, Shelburne Falls….an institution if there ever was one, in New England tradition and pride. They have had this farm since 1775, and have increased their acreage to the current 464 acres, […]
The Eventide Singers Bring Peace in the Final Moments
What a joy these singers must bring to their bedridden, sick and dying audiences. I read today about the Eventide Singers, who organize singers to visit people in hospice and hospital and sing gently to them. Simple. What a calling. What an honor. And it’s tough getting into this club. […]
James Brown: Papa Was a Mixed Bag
In a review of the new book about singer and soul man James Brown, “Kill ‘Em and Leave” by James McBride, the Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Carroll recalled many memories of the man many considered to be the true father of soul. The book clarifies a misconception perpetrated by the […]
Jonathan Richman Is Not Like Anyone Else
On stage at Pearl Street last night was Jonathan Richman, a peculiarly appealing musician who has been delighting audiences since his earliest days busking in Cambridge Common, and who with his Modern Lovers and after as a solo act, created 30 albums, each of which is like him–unlike anyone else. Since […]
Newspaper Delivery is Harder than it Looks
I am definitely a minority–I still subscribe to and read two daily newspapers every day. How many people do this? Most people tell me that they never take time to read the national newspaper, though some do catch the references that I may make about a story in the Recorder. […]
Soup for Syria Brings Neighbors Together in South Deerfield
Candace Bradbury-Carlin is South Deerfield’s best neighborhood organizer! She is always coming up with new ways to get people in our not-that-friendly little town together for events, things like suppers, art shows and events. She’s got another event coming up, and I’m happy to be joining some of our other […]