Mauritius: A Little Bit Of Caribbean In The Indian Ocean
I find it hard to get too worked up about travel pieces penned by writers obviously in the pocket of some resort hotel (Four Seasons as is the case here), but when that hotel happens to be somewhere as interesting as Mauritius, I’ll give them a little slack. Though located off the coast of Africa, […]
Buenos Aires Poised For The Return Of The Mondeda
As has been widely reported during the last few months, it’s been almost impossible to find Monedas (one peso coins) in Buenos Aires for various reasons, but mainly due to their necessity to ride the city’s buses. Well it looks like BA’s upgrading and instituting an electronic ticketing system, which should free up the coveted […]
Is It Better To Travel Alone?
I’m sure other people get this too, but every time I tell someone my plans to head to a particular location, the next question is inevitably, “Who are you going with?” When did a travel partner become a requisite for travel and why is it assumed that you are always going to be traveling with […]
France, American Style
“Why would a restaurant have a movie theater (one that would put most New York City theaters to shame) located directly above its dining room,” I thought to myself as I sat back in a plush theater chair waiting to hear from various representatives associated with France travel? Well, it turns out this wasn’t just […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 8 (Final Thoughts)
Remember that scene at the end of the Woodstock documentary after Hendrix played and everyone was gone and all that was left was a field strewn with trash and a few volunteers rifling through the leftover knapsacks and articles of clothing left behind? I imagine it’s kind of like that over at the Javits Center […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 7 (Tourists v. Travelers?)
The highlight of this year’s show was the talk I attended entitled “Travel Through the Eyes of the Travel Writer,” moderated by travel writer David Farley with fellow travel writers, Danielle Pergament, Adam Sachs and Tom Downey. Credits between the four of the include CondeNaste Traveler, Travel + Leisure, New York Times, Playboy, and many […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 6 (The Travel Channel Personalities Appear – Minus Anthony Bourdain)
Here’s The Travel Channel’s Andrew Zimmern of “Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern,” one of the most energetic and funniest speakers of the day. He revealed the title of his new spinoff show (Bizzare Worlds), the grossest thing he’s ever had to eat on his show (stinky tofu in Taiwan), and why he likes to wear […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 5 (When Worlds Collide: TheExpeditioner.com Meets The Frommers)
Right before I begrudgingly allowed the Frommers (father and daughter power-duo Pauline and Arthur) to take a picture with me (okay, in reality I tracked them down and forced my camera onto an unsuspecting passerby), I told Arther how I was blogging the event as I handed him my card. “Oh yes,” he responded, “at […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 4 (Everything’s Better With Caipirinhas)
Brazil was really just resting up for the bash it was putting on later in the day. Brazilians are also just cool enough where they can decide to read the paper and let you figure out for yourself why you should visit their amazing country. Peru’s smart enough to know that they just need to […]
NYT Travel Show: Post 3 (From Frommer To Toucans)
The freshly printed brochures were laid out in neat piles, the promotional pencils were sharpened, and the ceviche (Peru) and rum cake (Puerto Rico) were readied for the swarms of hungry conventioneers; something tells me these freebies won’t last long when the doors open to the rest of the world tomorrow. After an hour spent […]