This week’s #FriFotos theme is “Circles” …..I thought round and round…..then my mind wandered to the Dead or Alive song “You Spin Me Round (like a Record)” before landing on the Ferris Wheel (don’t ask how my mind associates things). Many cities have added Ferris Wheels to attract tourists and […]
“I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream” unless, like me, you are lactose intolerant, then you just sit there sad with your once scoop of sorbet remembering a time when you could enjoy ice cream (yes, I’m still bitter by my diagnosis). Here I was at Harrod’s Ice Cream […]
It’s funny what you don’t see when it’s right in front of you – for years, I stayed in Park Lane across from Buckingham Palace and never entered the park preferring to stay on Piccadilly and use the Underground. This summer, I finally took that walk in the park – […]
On the Baltic cruise, I had heard that I needed to see the “Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen and find the “Angry Baby” in Oslo. Finding an angry baby seems a simple goal but I was looking for the famous sculpture which resided in The Vigeland Sculpture Park. As this […]
Solo Dining in London can be tricky, at least for me over the years, as I’ve often felt really out of place. Through trial and error, I’ve developed my solo dining routine of places that I like and feel comfortable – places where the food is wonderful, the service attentive […]
It has taken me years of trial and error to fall in love with my London hotels and to reconcile the fact that I am forgoing thousands of points as I shun the US Chain hotels. Finding a level of comfort in the small hotels and their neighborhoods has made […]
This week’s FriFotos theme is “Hills”. Of course, the first thing that came to mind was the song “The hills are alive with the Sound of Music…” (yes, showing my age). While I’ve done the Sound of Music tour when I visited Salzburg, it was before the digital camera (again […]
This week’s theme as the summer comes to a close is Play. As an adult, I rarely get to play and have fun without a care in the world unless I am traveling. When traveling, the rules seem to fall away (or at least give me an excuse to ignore […]
In the year 2000, the Millennium Wheel was unveiled along the Thames. The enclosed Ferris Wheel welcomed the new century by adding a modern structure to the landscape of this old city. For more than ten years, the cab would drive along the Thames on the way to the office […]
When I was asked for my room number in Seattle, I had no idea, I looked in my purse for the room key and pulled out key cards from Portland, London, Paris and Philly (an indication that I need to clean out my purse!). I was at the end of […]