I took part in a travel conference called the American Travel Trends Forum where top travel experts and statisticians discussed how the travel industry will be bringing back tourism after the pandemic. Panelists included Peter Greenberg, Emmy Award-Winning Investigative Reporter, and Producer and CBS Travel Editor, Samantha Brown, host of PBS’s Samantha Brown’s Places to … [Read more...]
Visit Catalina Island: For a Lovely Island Getaway Outside of LA
One of the nicest things about living in Los Angeles is being by the sea. There’s nothing as healing as the ocean air. We have plenty of beaches but if you really want to get away from it all, visit Catalina. It’s 26 miles across the sea from LA and is so easy to get to by boat. I started going to Catalina when I was a kid - a zillion years ago During the 1960s … [Read more...]
AmaWaterways: Christmas Market River Cruise on the Danube
We took a river cruise aboard the AmaWaterways Amacerto along the Danube during November and December to see the Christmas Markets. It started in Budapest, stopping in the Austrian towns of Melk and Vienna and included excursions to Salzburg, Linz, Passau, Regensburg, and Nurnberg in Germany. After Nurnberg, we boarded a shuttle bus to Prague in the Czech Republic. To … [Read more...]
Prague: An Alluring City of Mystery in the Czech Republic
Prague, in the Czech Republic, was our last destination on our AmaWaterways Christmas Markets river cruise on the Danube. I was sorry that we didn't book more than the 2 days there, but it turned out I had to fly out quickly for a family emergency. It's a city of Gothic arcades, Renaissance windows, Rococo cherubs, and Art Nouveau sylphs. In all I found it to be eclectic … [Read more...]
Germany: Festive Regensburg and Nürnberg on the Danube
While we were on an AmaWaterways river cruise, we breezed quickly through Germany but I managed to take a few noteworthy photos. We were traveling during the holidays and the theme of our cruise was the Christmas Markets. As you can imagine, there's is nowhere that captures Christmas festivity quite like Germany. We stopped briefly in several German villages but the two main … [Read more...]
