Where are you?

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Although there’s nothing quite like strolling the streets of a foreign city, the pandemic has given rise to creative new ways of escaping. One of them is a free browser-based geography game called City Guesser you can play by yourself or with friends. You’re presented...

I’d love to have you for a meal…

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Santorini, Greece I signed Husband up for a spa treatment at the hotel. The English translation of the service menu was missing, and as I don’t read Greek, I wasn’t really sure what procedure I’d selected for him.Me (when he returned, pink and glowing, after an hour):...

It’s your serve…

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Hanoi, Vietnam After a delish dinner (caramelized lemongrass seared tofu), I asked the restaurant owner if she would call us a cab. She did, but said it may be as long as thirty minutes before it arrived, as many of the streets were blocked off for a festival and...

My brief stint in an Italian prison and other tales…

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Venice, Italy Husband and I took the Secret Itineraries tour of the Doges Palace. We toured the Pozzi (prison), the rooms of the Deputy Secretary (keeper of the Council of Ten’s secret archives), and the office of the Grand Chancellor, all connected by hidden...

Baby, you can drive my car(t)…

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JFK Airport, NY We deplane and I realize the lounge for which I have passes is at the other end of the airport. Me to Husband: “Sorry, honey. It’s at least forty minutes there and back.” (A bit of a disappointment; we’d just arrived on a long-haul...

Donut madness

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Toronto, Canada Due to an aircraft mechanical, we missed our connecting flight. As it was the last flight of the day, we had to overnight at an airport hotel. After the ticket agent printed our boarding passes, she reached under her counter and handed me a stack of...