Somehow in the past six years I have not made it to the Key West Botanical Gardens. Why? No idea. It just hasn’t happened. So, last week, I noticed in the newspaper that the first Sunday of every month is free for locals. Well, you can’t beat free. Plus, they […]
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Often times, I am invited to try a restaurant and even the idea of a free meal doesn’t get me excited. But, when I had to miss a media tasting at Frankey’s Sports Bar because I was sick, I was bummed. Fortunately for me, I was invited back.
We have reached the final installment of the Celebrity Solstice cruise recap. Today’s feature is Skagway, Alaska, a tiny town with only 800 permanent residents. There are a few restaurants that mainly cater to cruise ship passengers, and there is a small school, but if you are pregnant in Skagway, […]
Getting up at 5 or 6 AM on vacation seems like an outrage. But that was the time we start cruising Tracy Arm Fjord toward Sawyer Glacier, so that was the time we got up. At about 5:45 AM, I told FKGuy to go up to the Sky Lounge on the beautiful Celebrity […]
After a beautiful cruise up the Inside Passage, we docked on day 3 of our cruise in Ketchikan, Alaska. We left the ship and walked over to the Visitor’s Center to the rendezvous point for our scheduled seaplane tour of the Misty Fjords. Then my phone rang.
Recently, clients have come back from Celebrity, aboard the Celebrity Solstice and her sister ships, raving about the specialty restaurants, so I was eager to try one. Having a suite allowed us an evening in either Murano, Tuscan Grille or Silk Harvest at no additional charge. We chose Murano, largely because […]
Choosing a cabin aboard a cruise ship can sometimes be a challenge (I’ll dedicate another post on the subject in the future,) but for us, I knew we wanted a suite. Why? There is the issue of extra space, which is nice, but in my opinion not mission critical. Rather, Celebrity […]
After touring the beautiful Celebrity Equinox a few months ago, I was eager to board the sister ship, Celebrity Solstice, for a week in Alaska. Alas, the excitement was quashed just a little when, starting two weeks before departure, Celebrity started sending us emails, texts and calling us to let us […]
I love all things food television. From Top Chef to Masterchef and Chopped, any time someone is cooking on TV, I am likely watching. It all started years ago with Sara Moulton and Cooking Live, and while she was cooking she would take calls from viewers and answer questions. I loved […]
I have left out of the previous posts some of our best meals in Vancouver, just so I can torment you, er, share them with you all at once. We arrived in Vancouver about 7PM on a Sunday night after three flights: Key West to Atlanta, to Salt Lake City, and finally […]