Travel Photo Thursday: Chatelet Metro Station
[caption id="attachment_7160" align="aligncenter" width="578" caption="Entrance to Châtelet Metro Station, Paris"][/caption] This is my submission to this week’s Budget Travelers Sandbox Travel Photo Thursday series. Be sure to check out other photo and story entries on their website!
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Packing It In For My Next Trip
I don’t know about you but when I arrive at my destination, I hate having to wait for my luggage to arrive on the airport carousel. It always seems like such a waste of time just standing there waiting when all I want to do is hit the ground running. So I take just enough to fit into a suitcase that stows easily into the overhead compartment. I didn’t always travel like that though I can’t pinpoint now exactly when…
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A Stroll Through the National Mall
Travel, especially to places I’ve been to before, takes on a different dimension when I know it can be fodder for a new post. Like my recent trip to Washington, DC, a place I lived for ten years. The last time I was there, it was for the usual round of family visits and I didn’t have time to venture off by myself and revisit old haunts to see them with different, travel blogger, eyes. Before I got to Washington, I…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Last weekend, I decided to go to Washington, DC to see family and friends and also to view the monument to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which was recently unveiled on the Mall. It was to have been dedicated on August 28th in a ceremony marking the anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech but was postponed because of the arrival of Hurricane Irene. As with most public art pieces, there has been some controversy. One,…
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Soulful Sundays – Dame Shirley Bassey
My mom loved Dame Shirley Bassey but I didn’t appreciate her until I realized she sang the theme song to Goldfinger (I’m a big of the James Bond movies). That’s when I really took notice. Like Tom Jones, the other famous Welsh singer, Dame Shirley worked in a factory. She also sang in local clubs in the evenings and on weekends. [caption id="attachment_7122" align="aligncenter" width="595" caption="Dame Shirley Bassey"][/caption] Dame Shirley signed her first professional contract in 1953 and sang in a…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset
[caption id="attachment_7107" align="aligncenter" width="571" caption="Sunset over Paris"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7105" align="aligncenter" width="570" caption="Sunset in Zimbabwe"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7104" align="aligncenter" width="574" caption="Sunset in Zimbabwe"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7108" align="aligncenter" width="577" caption="Sunset over Montego Bay"][/caption] I'm not sure which I love more: sunrises or sunsets. Both bathe the earth with amazingly beautiful colors.
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The Journey Begins
For quite sometime now, I've nursed a dream to return to Jamaica, the place I was born. It wasn't one I shared easily as many people, my family included, worried. They questioned how I'd manage, how I'd deal with a place I haven't lived in for more than 30 years. But I knew it was something I had to do. I knew Jamaica was somewhere in my future. That future is now. Like me, Jamaica has changed but not always…
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Travel Photo Thursday – Table Mountain’s ‘Tablecloth’
[caption id="attachment_7083" align="aligncenter" width="576" caption="Table Mountain"][/caption] The day after we arrived in Cape Town, a spectacularly beautiful day, with few clouds, our guide, Ian, insisted that we visit Table Mountain. We had other ideas but eventually decided to follow his advice. The following day, the day we wanted to go, puffy, white clouds blanketed the mountain. Ian said it was its Tablecloth. This is my submission to this week’s Budget Travelers Sandbox Travel Photo Thursday series. Be sure to check…
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A Wordless Wednesday
[caption id="attachment_7086" align="aligncenter" width="578" caption="Elephants and Cape Buffalo, Hwange National Park"][/caption]
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10 Places to Eat Near Times Square
I’ve created several lists to help Tony plan his trip to New York City this fall but I hadn’t come up with recommendations for places to eat until today. Since Tony plans to return to the same Times Square area hotel he stayed at before, I’ll focus on the restaurants in the 9th Avenue corridor, arguably one of the best areas to dine in the city. What I love about this area is that the ethnic diversity of New York…
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