The many brands of Starwood Hotels (now part of Marriott) range from budget to luxury and I tend to stay mid-range hotels (Westin, Sheraton, W) when I travel. As I needed to reposition myself to New York for an award ticket on British Airways from JFK, I figured why not […]
I had one day in New York to explore before my 10 pm flight to London but what to do and where to go from morning to night without a hotel room to come back to? Maybe a Brooklyn Walking Tour? Despite my many visits to New York City over […]
What to do when you have a six hour layover at London Gatwick Airport and are flying British Airways? Take a shower at Gatwick! Unfortunately, London Gatwick doesn’t have an Arrivals Lounge like London Heathrow so I made my way to the British Airways (BA) Departure lounge, in the South […]
Arriving late to the conference, I missed out on the Rotterdam Street Art tour. But lucky for me (and you) that I discovered the ReWriters app that you can download (for a small fee) and tour the city’s street art on your own. If you are familiar with street art, […]
Rotterdam is a city of striking modern design buildings that are quite impressive. The most unique might be the Cube Houses in their playful yellow color near the new Market Hall. While a photographer’s dream of angles, light and color, you can actually go inside one Cube House and experience […]
When I turned the corner walking toward the canal and the city center of Bruges (site of the Jan Van Eyck statue), I didn’t expect to see a massive four story high plastic whale “Skyscraper” aka “The Bruges Whale” trying to jump out of the water in the canal. The […]
Have you ever camped out at a hotel? I got close to it at the Westin Milan when I stayed inside all day for a spa day in Milan but it was truly at the Milan Sheraton Diana Majestic that I can say I was luxury camping. It’s an interesting […]
“They don’t wear sneakers except to the gym” my friend said she learned the hard way when traveling in Europe recently. I had to laugh when she told me this – I really thought everyone knew that you DON’T WEAR SNEAKERS in Europe. Tour operators and writers really should mention […]
Over the past twenty years visiting London, I am hesitant to admit I hadn’t visited The British Museum. It’s free! Great Art! The Rosetta Stone (not the language classes)! Classic museum! There were so many reasons for a visit and with each block of free time, I chose to instead […]
Londoners are quite funny as they name the new buildings in the city based on their shapes – there’s the Gherkin, Cheese Grater, Shard and the Walkie Talkie. I’m not sure of the proper names of the buildings or even their addresses but everyone seems to know what you are […]