Unusual hotel touches for Toronto weekend
An athlete shown working with a kettleball was the surprise above my bed at the Le Germain in Toronto In the 6-by-3-foot black-and-white photo above my bed, a reclining man’s bare chest,...
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Catching the Christmas spirit in Wisconsin
Santa’s right at home at the Ostoff Resort here in Elkart Lake Wisconsin where winter is frosty and white and just cold enough for the ponds to be prepared for ice skating....
Visit France and Baltimore in December’s travel
The December travel section was delivered to readers on Sunday with the second part of my Provence series about the towns of Aix-en-Provence and Arles, towns which are 50 miles apart and...
Thankful for learning
I’m thankful that I still learn things every day despite having been on this earth for many decades. On Tuesday I learned from Marian Redmond lots of new tricks for making Christmas...
Marseille has newest park in France, fabulous hotel, bouillabaisse
The Notre Dame de la Gard basilica, which guards the Marseille harbor, was the view from my room at the new Intercontinental. Hotel. The newest national park in France is near Marseille,...
Making soap in Marseille
Make your own soap at this tiny shop near the Old Port of Marseille, where soapmaking has been a tradition for hundreds of years. The mistral, which roars across the south of...
Eating eel and bull meat a Provencal treat in France
Ingredients for bouillabaisse are sold at the waterside morning fish market in Marseille Eating in France is always an adventure and regional specialties help to underscore the sense of place. Bouillabaisse, which...
Passport fair successful
About 25 people came to the Passport Fair, staged at The News-Herald by Maureen Kelly, Lake County Clerk of Courts, and two of her staffers. Freelance photographer Dustin Lopez also was on...
Get that passport with everything in one place Oct.11.
Maureen Kelly and I cooked up the idea of a Passport Fair at a wine tasting one recent evening and now it’s ready to take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday,...
Max & Erma’s redo at Mall brings out the band
The Mentor High School band was there and so were portly Max and Erma costumed characters. Thursday’s “grand reopening” of Max & Erma’s, a freestanding restaurant in the east Great Lakes Mall...
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