This weekend I’ll be cruising to nowhere aboard the new Celebrity Solstice from Fort Lauderdale. It’s a chance for press and others to have a firsthand look at this new ship with...

I would never have believed that my first snow of Winter 2008 would be experienced in Dublin. The locals don’t believe it either. “It never snows here in October,” was the refrain...

Since Ireland is on the euro, highly favored in recent years by the exchange rate with the dollar, the Irish come to New York City in droves to do their shopping. Today’s...

Here in Ireland — where Halloween began — carved pumpkins are everywhere. Arriving at Druid’s Glen Resort, an elegant Marriott an hour from Dublin, I found jack-o-lanterns at every turn. Check out...

Chef Monica Pope has begun a revolution here in Houston. After living abroad and experiencing a culture where food is prepared only from ingredients harvested and purchased that same day, she returned...

I knew not to expect devastation but here in downtown Houston it’s hard to find any real evidence of Hurricane Ike, which swept through this part of Texas just a month ago....

This jug of tomatoes marinating in vodka sits behind the bar at Crop Bistro, an unusual spot on West Sixth Street. That’s one of the places where Cleveland’s Convention & Visitors Bureau...

I just had fresh lawyers for dinner. Like much of what’s found on menus here on Washington Island, lawyers are fish. They have other names in other places — burbot in other...

Mann’s here on Washington Island had contact lens cases and almost anything else one could want, including groceries galore, fishing lures, yogurt, toilets, rugs and more. It’s an old time country store...