For anyone who has read my blog regularly, it is no secret that I credit my mother with developing my love of travel. From since I can remember, she always filled the house with music from Brazil, children’s stories from France and tales of the many nationalities that filled the projects in the Bronx, New York… Read more
Last week I wrote a post about my ill-timed visit to the tallest building on the London skyline. How my excitement of visiting the Shard during its inaugural month was dampened when I arrived on the viewing deck to see nothing but mist and clouds. Even though I didn’t get the view the price of admission promised, my… Read more
Tea.A flavorful drink that warms your insides, relaxes you, soothes a sore throat and helps you unwind. A cup of tea can be a brief break from your day…but little more than that. When I first pictures people having tea in England, I imagined them sitting down at a table covered in lace, sipping from a… Read more
Just a day or two before my impromptu trip to London last weekend, I did a quick search of my email inbox to see if any of my favorite travel newsletters had unique “must do” recommendations for the city. I’m definitely not much of a theater person and it’s probably best that I stay far away… Read more
A weekend trip to London from the West Coast of the U.S. is not for the faint of heart. The 20-ish hours you’ll spend on the plane will hardly seem worth the only slightly more hours you’ll spend on the ground in this city. But if you’re truly have a heart for the city like I… Read more
While I love curling up with my laptop or iPad to get absorbed in a 20 minute TED Talk segment, its not something I do regularly enough. I love learning and even if it is on a topic that I have no general interest in (molecular biology, for instance) I can always come away from… Read more
Dream Big! Go hard or go home! That’s what I was yelling in my head as I came up with my travel wish list for 2013. I may be stretching a bit, but why the hell not?? Here’s my list of places I really hope to make it to this year (organized by brand new countries… Read more
Its been a BIG travel year and I couldn’t have been more blessed. My normal annual goals for foreign countries visited is 4 but I hit it out of the park this year with 17. What a year! The 5 months I spent on the road were so eye opening filled with new experiences, wonderful reunions… Read more
“So, are you more of a city person or a country person”, I asked my friend Pam, the other day when I was visiting her in London. We were just casually talking about life and living and where, if money were no object, we’d like to buy a home. We both agreed that we are city… Read more
In my last post I wrote about the excitement of seeing my first live event at the London Olympics. That event was held at the ExCel center, a large venue that houses multiple Olympic events under one roof. But the ExCel building is not in the Olympic Park itself. The main Olympic Park can only be accessed… Read more