Category: Travel

garden party extraordinaire

Saturday cleared in time for Holden Arboretum’s Summer Soiree French Market to frame mimes, auction goodies and luscious food and wines in a golden garden party atmosphere. Guests numbering more than 600...

cleveland wine fest

Who knew that the biggest revelation from last night’s opening night of the Cleveland Wine Festival would be BEER?The event at Voinovich Park on the lake behind the Rock and Roll Hall...

Five Star Recipes

I am briefly hijacking this blog from Janet, so I can share a pair of recipes from the Five Star Sensation this past Saturday in Beachwood. Five Star gathers top chefs from...

tomatoes on the riviera

Here on the French Riviera the growing season is much farther along than it is at home. In Nice, where we spent our first of six nights, a flower market is in...

Shower great after all night flight

After an all night flight to Paris on Air France, I discovered showers in the Air France Club at Charles deGaulle airport, which made everything right again. I sleep pretty well on...

AAA awardsfor lodging & dining

Their inn in Burton has been honored by AAA for each of the last seven years, but for Gordon and Evie Safran and innkeeper Gina Houlk, it’s still a thrill.This year the...

Carl Quagliata’s Tuscany

Carl Quagliata needs no introduction to area foodies. Best known for his top rated Ristorante Giovanni’s in Beachwood, on Wednesday he added to his longtime restaurant presence with the opening of Tuscany,...

Branson: God & country

God and country are paramount in Branson and there are no apologies to those who do not agree in the public display of religion and patriotism.The day’s opening ceremony yesterday at Silver...

branson missouri

Branson, Missouri is to show goers as Las Vegas is to gamblers. And both the glitz and the distances are pretty similar.More than 100 different shows are listed in the convention &...

Honors for me, CNN & GA. aquarium

It’s great being here in Atlanta with other travel writer members of the Society of American Travel Writers. We’re seeing the town and exchanging stories about how we are all coping in...