“Where’s our ship?” I asked my husband, Carl, in panic as we trekked to the tiny tender pier on the Scottish Isle of Iona. I couldn’t see it anchored where we had left it just hours earlier via a Zodiac RIB in the nearby sea. The chilly wind blew through me after I had been…
Take a Great Vacation on a Budget
After months of staying close to home because of the worldwide pandemic, Dan and Joanne Crawford were itching to take a vacation. Given their limited income and the cost of raising three young children, however, the amount in their bank account wasn’t sufficient to pay for a luxury trip. Even so, the couple used a…
Family Fun At The Carnival Magic Ports Of Call
We’re back, as mentioned in my article just last week where I shared our 5 Favourite Things from our First Family Cruise on the Carnival Magic, I’m now sharing more on the Carnival Magic ports of call. This was a 7 day Western Caribbean Cruise aboard the Carnival Magic that we were on for one…
7 Tips For Budget Travelers – How To Get The Best Deals
Travel Deals do exist you just have to know how and where to find them. Being in this industry for eight years I have certainly learned a few tips and tricks for making my money go as far as possible. If you are on a budget, no worries, you can still travel. We all get…
Rocking Good Etiquette at the Ritz London
By Alan Behr From Tribune News Service I had cautioned Ryan that, whatever else we did on our father-son military history tour of England, we would begin with live-fire etiquette practice in preparation for a big event we would shortly be attending. Owing to a transit strike (which seems to occur every other time I…
Discover the Tints, Textures and Tastes of Cape Town
By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service On an early spring morning, I open wide the sliding doors of my room at Cape Town’s Ellerman House, a hillside hotel above the Atlantic. From the balcony, I watch as low clouds and ghostly mists whisk across the bluest of skies. I don’t know why the…
Museum Road Trips: Offbeat Museums That Celebrate Uniqueness
The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City are indeed epic repositories of items not normally seen by most of us, but the following collections offer a glimpse of things that are truly unusual. It’s easy to think of museums as the dusty, ill-lit, dank buildings full…
Mountain Fun in Switzerland’s Appenzell
I’m high in the Swiss Alps in a tiny mountain hut on a perch called Ebenalp. Here, a spry grandpa in a sweater as worn as his face pulls a wide-eyed child onto his lap to teach him to drum with old wooden spoons, as the old-timer next to him pumps on his squeezebox. Tall,…
Taking the Kids: When They Are Babies and Toddlers
Forget spontaneous romantic dinners. Ditto for any big adventures. “Definitely there are a lot more logistics with little kids,” said Rachel Mastanduno, a Salt Lake City teacher and mom of a 3-year-old son Max and 5-month-old daughter Frankie. “Everything was within the limits of what Max could do,” she explained, adding that the baby was…
Going on Summer Vacation? Pack Good Manners Along With the Sunscreen
Kick back, relax, and unwind this summer; you’ve earned it. Going casual, however, doesn’t mean you should relax your standards of gracious etiquette—even if you’re vacationing close to home due to today’s high cost of travel. Balmy Beaches What’s summer without time spent at the beach? Unfortunately, unless you’re on an exotic island, a thousand…
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