Sometimes jokes that seem to be insider-only can be awfully funny. We got a chance to steep ourselves in Prince Edward Island lore and inside jokes when we joined a packed house at the Harmony House Theater in Hunters River, about 25 minutes outside of Charlottetown PEI. It was a wonderful […]
Jeff Noyes is a man with a dream. A shucker’s dream. He is happy to say that he is doing exactly what he wants to do in life. After 15 years heading up his hometown’s oyster festival, he’s created an oyster tasting room and bar, in Tyne Valley, PEI. We […]
My next destination has eluded me for the many years I’ve been traveling during the summer up to Canada. This time I’ll be heading to Prince Edward Island, in the Canadian Maritimes. Some of things I”ll be doing there include learning how the native Indians made drums, visiting a museum […]
Things are happening in our little town. There are a lot of moving parts, and the person who might know the most about them is our Town Administrator, Wendy Foxmyn. I sat down with Wendy last week in her town hall office to discuss these developments and other things about […]
Vorarlberg is the western-most state of Austria, bordered at the north by the Bodensee, or Lake Constance, as well as Switzerland to the west and Germany to the north. It’s a land of gentle green hills covered with hay, striking Alpine peaks streaked with snow, and meadows filled with the […]
I met up yesterday with another local tourism official, Cornelia Kriegner, at my hotel, and we didn’t go out to her car, as I would expect. Instead, we waited for the local bus and rode it up a few miles past the village to a trailhead. Conny was taking me […]
My first full day in Bregenzerwald was long and full of fascinating sites and an overwhelming number of alluring mountain vistas. Around every corner, another tidy home punctuated by red geraniums and stacks of narrow logs neatly tucked away came into view. Many of the people around here use these […]
I had dinner at the fine restaurant at my hotel, the Gastof Hirschen Schwarzenberg, and I ordered the chef surprise. No idea what was going to be served, I left the four courses up to the chef. And a good choice it was! They set four forks in front of […]
I’m having breakfast in the mountain village of Schwarzenberg, in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, the farthest west of Austria’s nine states, right near Switzerland. At the top of the map is the Bodensee, which some call Lake Constance. The region was formed in 1919, and this part of Austria […]
On Thursday night I’ll fly to Zurich and then drive about 50 km over to the region of Vorarlberg, in western Austria. It’s right on Lake Constance, and it’s a part of the world I’ve never seen. I met these folks at a European travel exposition, and they kept talking […]
Deerfield really feels like we’ve taken a turn into a new chapter. For so long, the symbol of our downtown has been the tired old building that once housed Franklin County’s Cable TV channels, which is now for rent. We’ve had a lot of empty stores and sad “now leasing”signs. […]
It was the perfect evening, still in the 80s, but cooling off, as we headed down a dusty farm road to a big tent you could see in the distance. The occasion was a customer and vendor appreciation dinner at Atlas Farm, the farm store where we buy lots […]