Staying near Bourbon Street, I didn’t know what to expect when I started to walk around. I was pleasantly surprised by the art in New Orleans French Quarter specifically on Royal Street, one of the cities oldest streets. Royal street is home to many art galleries, antique shops and boutiques. […]
Review: The W French Quarter Hotel – New Orleans Boutique Hotel Retreat. New Orleans is a city steeped in historic homes, cemetaries and stories. It is a city exploding with jazz, food and fun and for the most part, much of that happens in the French Quarter. My visit to […]
Failing miserably at the Indie30 blogging challenge (I’m swamped with two weeks of prompts to work on), it’s very timely that the FriFotos theme is RELAX. So in the spirit of multi-tasking the two different hashtags #Indie30 and #FriFotos, I’m going to relax a bit but showing photos of places […]
Solo dining is either embraced or feared. I decided a long time ago to embrace it and look at it for what it is – I’m hungry and am allowed to eat, by myself, alone at a table and enjoy my meal just like the couples and groups around me. […]
On my first cruise, I would open up the door to my lower deck inside stateroom and just laugh. You think you know how small rooms will be when you read the brochure or view online but you never know until you open that door. With a cruise, the point […]
It’s no secret that I’m a cookie addict. While I have tempered the craving a bit by only eating highly worthy cookies such as Metropolitan Bakery‘s Sour Cherry Sea Salted Chocolate Chip or my local Hope’s Cookies, I was on a cookie quest in Chicago. I was in search of […]
I knew it was wrong but I couldn’t stop myself, my body was craving chocolate at 9 a.m., so there I was eating pretzel M&Ms with my breakfast. My body had no clue what time zone it was in and how long we were staying here as for almost two […]
For the past few years, I’ve decided to skip the walking tour and see the city by bike. Given that I often trip over my feet walking straight, a bike tour is always fraught with potential danger (for me at least) – there are pedestrians, motor vehicles, curbs, trolley tracks […]
Boston is a city rich with history, teeming with colleges (and college students) and organized by neighborhoods in Boston. With the Charles River, multiple green spaces throughout the city and a collection of cultures interwoven, the city offers the visitor a plethora of options to explore and discover. For me, […]
Everyone wants to see the flying fish, they are crowded around the fish stall at the entrance to Pike Place Market in Seattle. The school children are just waiting and watching – we all are. The one item missing is the customer – the fish stall needs a customer to […]