Dear friends and food aficionados, have I got a restaurant for you! It’s called Dirty French… and it’s located in the Ludlow Hotel where we stayed during our recent trip to New York City. You can read all about this terrific, lower east side hotel in my recent post by clicking here. During our short stay […]
Greetings from New York City. Our recent cruise to Bermuda started and ended in NYC so we decided to spend a couple of days in The Big Apple at the tail end of the cruise. This time we stayed at a relatively new hotel called The Ludlow (opened in June 2014) and I fell in […]
Aloha! You may have noticed that I have spent a lot of time lately telling you all about my adventures on the island of Bermuda. I think it made me a little sentimental and reminiscent about the years I spent living in Hawaii, where I met my husband Brad. In what seems like another lifetime, […]
Hello there! I hope you have not yet tired of all my reporting on Bermuda because I saved the best for last: the beautiful homes, hotels & beaches of Bermuda. On our 2nd day on the island, we decided to take a ferry ride from the Royal Naval Dockyard where our ship was moored, to […]
Greetings! Today I invite you to join me for a visit to the beautiful island of Bermuda. Our cruise ship, NCL’s Breakaway, tied up in the Royal Naval Dockyards on the western tip of Bermuda where we would remain for 3 days. Brad and I took full advantage of those 3 days to explore as much […]
Greetings from the Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda. Located in the Atlantic Ocean just 650 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., Bermuda has the distinction of being the oldest remaining British Overseas Territory. It’s only a 2 hour flight from New York City & Washington, D.C., 2 1/2 hours by plane from Orlando, Florida; and about 7 hours […]
Greetings from The Big Apple! If you’ve been following along lately, you’ll know that we have recently returned from a cruise to Bermuda on NCL’s ship the Breakaway. We had selected an Aft-Facing Penthouse Suite which gave us all of the perks associated with what they refer to as “The Haven”. One of the perks […]
Greetings! We have recently returned from a cruise to the island of Bermuda, a trip chosen by our son Austin for his high school graduation present. Once he decided on this particular trip, a 7 day cruise from New York City to Bermuda, we then had to select our cabin on board NCL’s mega ship, […]
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