March
17
/ 2009
Seafood lovers - get ready to party. Arriving by bikes, trolleys and cars, festival goers will immediately be drawn into the magical, island-style celebration that has become the Deering Seafood Festival. Greeted with the intoxicating rhythm of steel drums and towering stilt walkers, the party is about to begin on the biggest backyard on Biscayne Bay.
Cead Mile Failte - one hundred thousand welcomes. This is the welcome when you visit http://www.knockahopple.com, and I am sure it is more than one hundred thousand welcomes when you are lucky enough to visit Knockahopple, in Ireland.
Warming from the Inside Out
If you are looking for indoor ways to spend a winter day you might consider one of my favorites: drive to Mission Peninsula and enjoy casual wine tasting capped with a delicious dinner at The Mission Table.
Once in a while, you occasionally run across people who have truly captured the essence of people around the world. One such photographer is Matt Carrington.
Anyone who travels will commit a cultural error from time to time. But generally speaking, if you want to err in such a way that a national uproar will ensue, it helps to be famous. Take the case of Princess Diana’s 1991 visit to Lahore, Pakistan.
Panama City Beach, Fla., is the new home of the Gulf Coast’s annual
Seabreeze Jazz Festival. Panama City Beach’s Pier Park sets the stage for
Traveling with kids? It is so much fun to explore the world with your kids - and I've learned that when we travel with our daughter, we learn and see so much more! One of the coolest travel sites that I've seen is a location-specific one that highlights the unique beauty and attractions of Cairns, Australia.
You may have noticed I used the word stumble in my title to speak about the art studio I had the privilege of seeing yesterday. Stumble is the correct word. I am not the type who goes actively looking for art. I like it, sure, but I don’t know much about it except that when it’s in a museum, I’m supposed to like it and sometimes I do. I have never actually talked to an artist, though, until yesterday. I met this wonderful artist in Seville, Spain, in a guitar studio one day, and she told me about an art exhibition she was having in Seville.