Cruise ships offer many ways to overindulge, and one of the best ways to do that with food and wine onboard Marina is at La Reserve, a serious special restaurant endorsed by the oenophiliac magazine “The Wine Spectator”, and limited to 24 guests, which features an extravagant, carefully chosen and prepared, seven-course food and wine…
Continue reading →After fog delays in London, we arrived late in Lisbon and were glad to be warmly welcomed at the charming Hotel Britania, a small boutique hotel just off the Avenida da Liberdade, sort of the 5th Avenue of Lisbon, and conveniently located to the city highlights. We came here several years ago and explored many…
Continue reading →The hardest part of travel may be getting there…and getting back from there. Airplanes, airports, security checks, queues, more queues, waiting, walking, more waiting, sitting, more walking, more sitting…and no sleeping. That’s where we are right now….sitting and waiting in London’s foggy Heathrow airport, en route so far for about 18 hours, with about three…
Continue reading →“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”, the daughter of my friend advised her, as she was choosing a travel destination. And, as Dean and I are about to embark on another cruise, I am feeling a bit out of my comfort zone. To fill in some of the cancelled itinerary of our…
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