Travel
You think you know your friends and family well? Try traveling with them to learn more than you ever needed to know (I really should have them complete the travel roommate questions). Who would have guessed my country mouse friend was a cruise ship liquor smuggler? I found out when […]
I’ve been very spoiled over the years flying Club World (business class) on British Airways from Philadelphia to London return for work in my prior job. Now that has ended, I’ve had to pay my own way to London (yes, I know cue the sad tiny violins) and have done […]
When my former London colleagues would ask what I wanted for lunch, I’d always reply “I’m good with chicken” and they would give me a weird look. While chicken is everywhere in the U.S., in London not so much. There were Turkish, Indian, Thai, Italian and sandwich takeaway shops but […]
My last minute weekend in London for my British Airways status qualification trip gave me a great opportunity to try a new hotel, the Hoxton Holborn as I wanted an affordable hotel stay. The Hoxton hotel has been on my radar for a few years now since it first opened […]
I wanted my British Airways Silver Elite Status back and this is what I did to get that card! My weekend packing should have entailed two outfits that fit into a backpack or duffel bag and yet here I was with my ten day suitcase all ready to go. When […]
Kids Today are Lucky! This weekend, I spent time with my niece Aubrey, the lucky kid who got to visit Paris & London with me a few years ago. She was telling me of her spring break trip to Fort Lauderdale with her dad, her upcoming school trip to Virginia, […]
My earliest memories of my first camera used flash cubes and 110 film cartridges. I then graduated to the Polaroid One Step camera which with a few waves in the air (like you just don’t care) the image magically appeared. For a grade schooler in the 1970’s, this was so […]
Traveling to London for work, I’ve stayed in a variety of hotels throughout the city over the years, it wasn’t until I discovered the Firmdale chain of boutique hotels owned by the UK designer Kit Kemp that I found my home away from home, albeit a much more stylish, luxurious […]
After two walking treks in the Okavango Delta at Oddball’s Camp in the Moremi Game Reserve, I hadn’t yet seen any hippos – we had only heard them at dinner time around the camp. So when the Canadian couple mentioned that for their afternoon trek they were going to look for hippos, I […]
After laughing outside of The Elephant Camp tent by the sheer size and realizing that my first night in Botswana was an actual tent you buy in the store – I tried to be a bit more calm with the guided tour of my room at this boutique luxury camp […]