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Hotel Review: Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, NYC

Hotel Review: Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, NYC

This 4-star hotel, Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between East 30th and East 31st Streets. That makes it a stone's throw from the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Penn Station, Macy's, and the West 34th Street shopping...

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Travel News & Advice – November 15, 2024

Travel News & Advice – November 15, 2024

Hotel rooms inspired by Wicked. New York Hilton Midtown hotel is collaborating with Universal Pictures to create a one-of-a-kind suite inspired by the Broadway show and upcoming movie, Wicked. Canned air? In Lake Como, they're selling cans of the local air for people...

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Winchester, England – Not Just a Cathedral

Winchester, England – Not Just a Cathedral

Oops! The wine I just poured tilted to one side of the glass. Most odd. Then, looking around, seeing the low, heavily beamed ceiling and taking into account the age of this place – the house was built about six hundred years ago – I realized that, most likely, the...

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Crystal Stemware for Wine Aficionados

Crystal Stemware for Wine Aficionados

In the past, luxury stemware preferred by wine drinkers of my father's generation were fairly thick, ornate, heavily carved, lead crystal glasses. They were produced by companies with a long history such as Baccarat, Moser, Josephinenhütte, Orrefors, Waterford,...

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Winchester, England – Not Just a Cathedral

Winchester, England – Not Just a Cathedral

Oops! The wine I just poured tilted to one side of the glass. Most odd. Then, looking around, seeing the low, heavily beamed ceiling and taking into account the age of this place – the house was built about six hundred years ago – I realized that, most likely, the...

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Hotels, Resorts, Spas

Hotel Review: Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, NYC

Hotel Review: Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, NYC

This 4-star hotel, Le Meridien Fifth Avenue, is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between East 30th and East 31st Streets. That makes it a stone's throw from the Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Penn Station, Macy's, and the West 34th Street shopping...

read more

Food, Wine, Spirits

Crystal Stemware for Wine Aficionados

Crystal Stemware for Wine Aficionados

In the past, luxury stemware preferred by wine drinkers of my father's generation were fairly thick, ornate, heavily carved, lead crystal glasses. They were produced by companies with a long history such as Baccarat, Moser, Josephinenhütte, Orrefors, Waterford,...

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Cruise & Sail

Whale Watching from New York City – You Read That Right!

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...

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Travel News & Advice – November 15, 2024

Travel News & Advice – November 15, 2024

Hotel rooms inspired by Wicked. New York Hilton Midtown hotel is collaborating with Universal Pictures to create a one-of-a-kind suite inspired by the Broadway show and upcoming movie, Wicked. Canned air? In Lake Como, they're selling cans of the local air for people...

read more