Every day is carnival! Drag Queens (major shoe envy on my part), ice cream stores and buskers vie for the attention of the street packing throngs of tourists. Provincetown, P’town for short, is the small village at the very tip…
Category: destinations
the difference a day makes
St Pierre reigned as the Paris of the Caribbean. On May 7, 1902, this, the most glamourous city on Martinique, had it all… fashionable inhabitants, a swanky theatre featuring top French performers, wealthy plantation owners and enough bars and brothels…
paris museums you’ve never visited
Paris off the beaten track! Visit any or all of these wonderful, wacky, off the tourist track museums and learn something new about this old-favorite city. The Counterfeit museum Can you tell the real thing from a fake? Here’s a…
how do you make the best of a stopover?
What to do with 16 hours in Miami? The same as I’d do anywhere… a meal, a walk and a museum. We landed at 8 pm. We were leaving at 1 the next afternoon. And I hoped to include 8…
what have i got in common with blackbeard?
Well, thankfully, not the beard! But we did both seek shelter from high winds and rough seas in Admiralty Bay. So did, rumor has it, Henry Morgan and Sir Francis Drake. A terrific natural harbour in Bequia, pirates and boaters…
four facts about whistler bc you may not know
Whistler is wonderful. Every ski magazine says so. Gourmet restaurants, cool bars, amazing hiking trails and of course, world class skiing. Sometimes I forget, taking it for granted. I’ve been coming for ages. Watching the Olympics was a life highlight.…