Feb 15
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we step inside the strange world of the Japanese “love hotel”. They are short-stay hotels designed for amorous couples in search of seclusion, and have proven increasingly popular in Japan, where space, and therefore privacy, are at a premium.
Feb 6
We’ll dispense with descriptions of shimmering sea, unspoiled beaches and sultry palm trees. You know why you want to visit Hawaii. It’s a place apart, in mind and fact. A couple of airlines are making it easy to get there. Here’s the rundown:
Hawaiian Airlines is running its Great Hawaiian Winter Getaway Sale just now. Book and buy no later than Oct. 3. Then, fly Nov. 21, 2011 through Feb. 9, 2012. There’s a Christmastime black out period embedded here, and neither taxes nor fees are included. These d
Jan 30
One of the joys of wandering the streets of a foreign land, is taking in the unique architecture and I have endless photos of beautiful doors from our travels. I could do a whole series just from the beautiful doors in our little white village in Spain where we wintered for four years. Europe is especially rich with beautiful doors, but weve also loved them in Asia and almost every country and continent we have visited. Perhaps because we have built a house with beautiful hand-made doors or because DaVinci just had a dream about doors, this photo caught my eye. Read full post…
Jan 20
side·track (sīd´trăk): n. 1. A diversion from the main course. 2. A detour taken with children that you would never, ever take without them.
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Who: Travel Savvy Mom founder Jamie Pearson, her husband, and their children (then 1 and 3, so set your time machines to way back). This was our first ever sidetrack.
What and Where: Le Reptilarium Mont St Michel (since renamed Alligator Bay). Normandy, France. A reptile zoo with tortoises, snakes, and (according to their breathless brochure copy) the biggest group of alligators in Europe. At
Jan 13
Why do tourists go to Las Vegas?
Top answer, to borrow a phrase, would surely be gambling…and gambling-related activities (these include drinking, clubbing, watching big arena shows and other less salubrious pleasures too unpleasant to mention on a family website).
My guess is that fairly low down on visitors’ lists of priorities is the chance to sample good old British shepherd’s pie (offer Americans shepherd’s pie and they would almost certainly assume it was made out of shepherds: Oh my God, I’m grossing out here…!).
But yes one man is going to Las Vegas with the aim of offering shepherd’s pie and that man is Gordon Ramsay who is opening a new restaurant called Gordon Ramsay Steak in the Paris Las Vegas resort this Spring.
According to Gordon: Vegas has become a foodie haunt. With lovers o