Destinations
TASTY TRAVEL Destination: California (Candyland by book) Book: See’s Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet Story (2005) by Margaret Moos Pick Review and Recipe by Brette Sember One of my family’s favorite vacation activities is to take tours of fun food production facilities. We’ve visited the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA, the Byrd Cookie Company [...]
PDF Wednesday Matinee Destination: Anchorage, Barrow, and Fort Richardson, Alaska Movie: Big Miracle (NEW 2012), Directed by Ken Kwapis Review by Jane Boursaw Reel Rating*: 4 out of 5 Reels There’s something really compelling about whales. Is it their size and power? The fact that they swim in the ocean underneath our tiny boats? Or the [...]
Music Travel Monday ANNOUNCEMENT from VERA MARIE: Kerry Dexter’s blog, Music Road is a finalist in the 2012 Bloggies. You can go to the Bloggies page and vote for Kerry as the BEST Music blog on the Internet. Voting closes in mid February, so do not delay. Destination: Romance Music: Lover’s Well by Matt and [...]
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Charles Dickens at 200 Destination: Ohio, 1842 Book: American Notes by Charles Dickens It would be quite unthinkable to let this month pass without paying homage to the 2nd centenary of one of our greatest and most popular writers–Charles Dickens, born February, 1812 (probably February 7). I’ve been dipping into some Dickens’ travel writing to supplement [...]
Feb 6, 2012: CONNIE ONG is definitely on a roll. Last week I announced that she was one of the grand prize winners in the January Giveaway. This week I’m announcing that she got the most correct answers to the question of Who is associated with each of the photos below. After I added clues, [...]
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Destinations: Monte Carlo, Paris, London Book: White Truffles in Winter (a novel) by N. M. Kelby This fictionalized biography of the great French chef, Auguste Escoffier– – is delicious, scandalous, lascivious, luscious… The writing is lush. The author, N. M. Kelby, paints the portrait of a man obsessed with luscious food and delicious women. But [...]
CONTEST IS OVER. The FINAL daily prize in the January Giveaway goes out today. And then I draw for the Grand Prize Winners. (See below) Destinations: Milan, New York City and Brittany in France Book: P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters (originally 2009, but NEW in English– February 2012) by Paola Calvetti I reviewed this [...]
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Sicily Week Destination: Sicily Book: The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed, by Norman Lewis (Original-1964 with postscript added in 1984; reviewed edition 2003.) If you were playing word-association, Sicily-Mafia might be your first reaction. seems to me to be a perfect addition to a library of travel literature– if you read it along with Seeking [...]
CONTEST OVER! Today one lucky person will win a lovely classic travel book, reprinted by Tauris Paperbacks and distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave. See details at the bottom of the post. In the city of Venice, where so much is hidden behind doors and glimpses at life inside a window seem a stolen pleasure, [...]
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