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Restaurant Review: A Halloween Adventure at Sugar Factory in Atlantic City
Yearning for both a fun and a delicious dining experience to usher in the upcoming Halloween season, we opted for a visit to the Sugar Factory Restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. This was our second visit to a Sugar Factory eatery. Last...
Travel News and Advice – October 15, 2024
Italy and Switzerland to redraw borders. Melting glaciers in the Alps are the reason for this change near Zermatt, Switzerland and involves a 330-foot-long segment. Delta Partnership with Incheon Airport in South Korea. Currently, Delta Airlines' Asian hub is Tokyo's...
Hotel Review: Loews® Kansas City Hotel
This beautiful 4-star Loews Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri is located downtown right across the street from the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It's surprisingly large for an inner city hotel with 800 rooms and suites and a sprawling lobby that contains many...
Recipe from Treviso, Italy: Home of the Original Tiramisù
Recipe translation by Gabriella Venezia, trevisoguide@hotmail.com On a trip to Treviso, Italy, I was introduced to the city’s proud claim to fame as the place where tiramisù was first created. In the late 1800s, the owner and head cook at a small restaurant and sweet...
Crete: Visiting the Ancient Minoan World
Recently, I decided to visit Crete to see the ancient cities that became the cornerstone of our modern culture. They were the precursors of 21st century Western civilization. We flew from Athens to Heraklion and stayed in a lovely small hotel overlooking the harbor...
Symposia: How Affluent Ancient Athenian Men Spent Their Evenings
Nowadays, we hear a lot about symposia. In current usage, it has come to mean an academic or scientific gathering where distinguished speakers present their insights or findings on cultural, archaeological, economic, or scientific questions. The word’s usage in...
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Crete: Visiting the Ancient Minoan World
Recently, I decided to visit Crete to see the ancient cities that became the cornerstone of our modern culture. They were the precursors of 21st century Western civilization. We flew from Athens to Heraklion and stayed in a lovely small hotel overlooking the harbor...
Hotels, Resorts, Spas
Hotel Review: Loews® Kansas City Hotel
This beautiful 4-star Loews Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri is located downtown right across the street from the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It's surprisingly large for an inner city hotel with 800 rooms and suites and a sprawling lobby that contains many...
Food, Wine, Spirits
Restaurant Review: A Halloween Adventure at Sugar Factory in Atlantic City
Yearning for both a fun and a delicious dining experience to usher in the upcoming Halloween season, we opted for a visit to the Sugar Factory Restaurant in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. This was our second visit to a Sugar Factory eatery. Last...
Cruise & Sail
Whale Watching from New York City – You Read That Right!
A lot of visitors and locals aren't aware that you can watch whales from Manhattan and Brooklyn in NYC. And I'm talking some major whale watching! I recently took a cruise from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn with American Princess Cruises, where we saw seven humpback...
Museums, Entertainment
The Bronx Zoo: One of the Best Zoos in the World
If you've ever watched the TV show, The Zoo, on the Animal Planet channel, you've been behind the scenes at the Bronx Zoo, which is currently celebrating its 125th year. Covering 265 acres, it's one of the largest and oldest zoos in the United States. But did you know...
Travel Advice, News
Travel News and Advice – October 15, 2024
Italy and Switzerland to redraw borders. Melting glaciers in the Alps are the reason for this change near Zermatt, Switzerland and involves a 330-foot-long segment. Delta Partnership with Incheon Airport in South Korea. Currently, Delta Airlines' Asian hub is Tokyo's...