From the moment I exit the taxi cab, I enter a world of comfort, design and a style that I long to be a part of – in my mind – the cool kids club. The boutique hotel spaces are magazine worthy and I want to be in the middle […]
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 […]
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 […]
Growing up in Philadelphia, I was exposed to graffiti and thought that it was destructive and ugly. I didn’t know the nuances of the tags – the street names, the gangs, etc. I just knew that it was, for the most part, black spray paint as either puffy […]
My sister had a few rules before I could take my eleven year old niece, Aubrey, to Paris & London. The first rule was to feed her every few hours even if she says she isn’t hungry (this seemed easy?). The second rule was no empty calories like I normally […]
I surprised my niece on Easter with the plane tickets, rather, the printout of the itinerary for our trip to Paris and London. With her initial excitement came the realization that Aunt Sue was going to make her work a bit prior to the trip in the form […]
My sister began reciting all the rules over dinner, thankfully, I had a large glass of wine as my niece started to sound like a gremlin and not the adorable kid who went to see Frozen with me a few weeks ago, I didn’t know there would be rules for […]
London is full of pubs and how you choose which one to go to can be as simple as “there is a pub” or as complicated as you make it. But sometimes, you don’t choose the pub, the universe leads you there instead. For me and UK pubs, the universe […]