Learning from others
I learned lots from my group of international journalists while visiting France’s Loire Valley in September. The ten of us, shown here after our wonderful hot-air balloon voyage, came from Tokyo, Hong...
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Loire chateaux gardens
Château de Chenonceau visitors look over some of the gardens originated in the 16th century by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici as kayakers on the river over which the chateau ...
Nantes Loire location shapes its food
This fish monger’s stall was one of the busiest early on a Wednesday morning at Nantes’ Talensac Market. The food of Nantes, once at the Atlantic Ocean mouth of France’s Loire River,...
Releasing turtles along Mayan Riviera
USA 3000 flights and Apple Vacations make it really easy to to get from Cleveland to Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, south of Cancun. It’s about a three hour morning flight and you can...
Travel is an attitude
The Long Weekend of Fun set for this weekend at Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora is a perfect opportunity to test the attitude of travel. If you haven’t gotten away this summer the...
Holden benefit raises money for education
The nearly 500 people who came to Holden Arboretum’s annual summer benefit enjoyed a perfect summer evening as they browsed among silent auction items, sipping, munching and reconnecting. More than $113,000 was...
A real deal to vacation with sharks
Swimming next to hammerhead sharks through an acrylic tube is probably my favorite waterslide in the world. The hammerheads seen here are all alone in the pool with one of the Atlantis...
Port Dover dining on Ontario’s south coast
Port Dover, one of several towns I visited while researching what’s across Lake Erie from here, has a dining experience unlike any other. The Schneider family, who has run the Erie Beach...
Here’s how you’ll be snacking
Those who attended the recent Sweets & Snacks Expo at the recent National Restaurant Show in Chicago are filling me in on what they found there. In fact Foodchannel.com compiled a list...
World’s most beautiful voyage
It’s a voyage I took in early September a decade ago, partly to see where my Norwegian ancestors came from. Its possible my story could be found in the newspaper’s archives but...
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