Saturday afternoon of Key West Food and Wine Festival always brings a lot of fun, usually in the form of Duval Uncorked. This year, we started our afternoon at the Santa Barbara Pinot Noir seminar, put on by the folks at Flying Goat Cellars and Riverbench. We smelled dirt. (Yes, […]
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One of my favorite events of the entire year happens each January, the Key West Food and Wine Festival, and this year was no exception. I spent a good deal of time at the Hospitality Suite selling tickets, meeting the festival goers, and of course, drinking wine. (It’s a rough […]
It is January and in Key West that means the snowbirds are here, plenty of tourists are in town, and there are activities and festivals galore. I have barely recovered from my Christmas party-Birthday party- Birthday dinner – Christmas Eve party – Christmas party – pre- New Year’s Eve party […]
While aboard the Crown Princess, we stopped in Aruba. While there I was invited to spend the afternoon at the Aruba Marriott Resort and Casino. With eight different venues for food and drink, a spectacular beach dotted with shady palapas, a swim up bar and an adults only pool, there […]
As promised, the photos that go with the previous post. Crown Princess, Southern Caribbean, December 2013. Enjoy. I did.
After sailing on numerous cruise lines in the past, last week I had the opportunity to sail aboard the Crown Princess. My first time with Princess, a friend and I boarded the large, 3,000 passenger ship in Fort Lauderdale for a week in the Bahamas, Curacao, Aruba and three sea […]
Recently I did not feel like a big dinner (I know – it shocked me, too), so I thought happy hour would do the trick. We went out to the best happy hour in Key West, Alonzo’s Oyster Bar. From 4-6:30 every day all drinks and appetizers are half off. […]
I find it therapeutic to immediately begin planning my next vacation as soon as I get back. So I’ve been looking at cruise itineraries for next year. I have also been going back through some photo albums of vacations past. One that I particularly enjoyed reliving was a trip to […]
Sadly, this is the last installment of the post-cruise recap. Next week we are back to more local adventures. Meanwhile… It is no secret that I had been dreaming of the almond croissants aboard Seabourn ships from the minute we booked. The food is one of the reasons this cruise […]
The galley of a ship is an impressive feat of organization, and the Seabourn Sojourn is no different. This is where much of the food is produced for the entire ship. Homemade ice creams, breads, those decadent almond croissants… they all come out of this galley. Is it really possible […]