If you have been following along, you know that I have just run (run/walk/run) in the Disney Half-Marathon over the weekend, along with 26,999 other people. I have had three months of waking up at 4:15 on Saturday mornings to train, running with the Lululemon Run Club every Tuesday, suckering […]
Outside the Florida Keys
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One of my dear readers often complains that of all the fabulous places I eat, not one of them is near his house. This one is for you. Il Mercato Cafe is on Hallandale Beach Boulevard, in the Publix shopping center in Hallandale, FL. The restaurant has only been open […]
Key West is a funny place. In the winter, tourists abound and restaurants and hotels are making tons of money – always busy and we always need reservations. In the summer, however, you can walk into any restaurant on the island and get a table. It is during the summer […]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife It is my favorite holiday. Why? Really great food with no religious stuff to get in the way of eating (like fasting, for example, that clearly gets in the way of eating.) There is also the Macy’s parade, which although I always say I […]
I had the opportunity to tour the Carnival Imagination on Monday. Why? It is helpful for me, as a travel agent, to see as many ships as possible. After all, I book a whole lot of cruises. Holding over 2,000 passengers, this ship has something for everyone.
The Miami Wine Fair, which happens every year in September or October, is generally an event filled with small wineries and producers looking for distribution in Florida. For the past couple of years I have been given tickets to the trade tasting, which happens early in the day before the […]
I have a friend who likes Mollydooker wines, and is also a big fan of Sparky, the owner of the winery. We have, many times, talked about the wines. He loves them. Me, not so much. So when Steve insisted that we come to a dinner at The Raleigh hotel on […]
We have some very good friends who live on Maryland’s eastern shore. Whenever we are in the D.C. area they always come see us, which results in packing three children in the car and roughly three hours of driving to meet us somewhere the kids are sure to be bored […]
Charming, independently owned restaurants, with good food and service are not abundant in Washington, DC suburbs, particularly Reston. Last weekend, while visiting, we found ourselves at Passionfish in the Reston Town Center. It is part of a mini-chain of various restaurants in the Washington area owned by the same restaurant […]
Nothing says happy birthday like a good breakfast. So, when in Lancaster for a wedding, we were also celebrating my mother-in-law’s birthday and started the day off at Ida’s Cafe. Like my sister-in-law so astutely observed: a restaurant has to be good if they can close by 2 PM.