I can’t think of anything I’d rather do right now than join my five pals and play some poker. To people who don’t play, it’s hard to convey, but to those of us in my poker group, it’s a golden time for all. To a man, we all love the […]
Last night I joined a crowd of about 700 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke where four luminaries and a few institutions were recognized in the 2016 NEPR Arts and Humanities Awards. The sun came out on the terrace as the many guests mingled, and as usual, I found plenty […]
Every May, WFCR has held a gala event that honors members of the community in the Pioneer Valley who stand out for how they’ve helped foster the arts. The list of the 2016 recipients is impressive–Tracy Kidder, Maria Luisa Arroyo, Community Access to the Arts, and my all-time favorite movie theater, […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]