BY JANET STEINBERG Forty shades of green.  I can think of no better way to describe Ireland, The Emerald Isle. IRELAND  IS FORTY SHADES OF GREEN  Dunmore East, a small fishing village located in County Waterford, some 15 miles south of Waterford.  Dunmore East, with its twisting lanes and old houses, sits on the...

BY JANET STEINBERG PART SIX OF A SERIES The Bahamas is not one destination, but many. The Bahamas is a 600-mile long archipelago of about 3000 islands but only 30 of them are permanently occupied.  Each island is unique, but they are all part of a whole that Bahamians refer...

BY JANET STEINBERG PART FIVE OF A SERIES Having sailed some 641 nautical miles from Norfolk on Silversea’s Silver Shadow, we reached the delicate water-colored islands of Bermuda that are among the most beloved islands in the world.  Under a “pink cloud of oleanders, the idyllic islands of Bermuda are framed...

BY JANET STEINBERG PART FOUR OF A SERIES  How would you pronounce the name of that bustling seaport town in Virginia?  Is it Nawr-fek Nah-fic, Naw-fok, or any combination of the above?  Or would you call it just plain Nor-folk? WELCOME TO NORFOLK No matter how you pronounce it, Norfolk is a nifty...

BY JANET STEINBERG PART THREE OF A SERIES Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning….and especially on a morning when you are arriving into Charleston’s bustling harbor on the fourth day of a glorious Silversea cruise.  Our cruise, on Silversea’s Silver Shadow, had just sailed us...

BY JANET STEINBERG  PART TWO OF A SERIES Spanish moss dripping from live oaks…stately mansions exuding the charm of the 1800’s…historic Revolutionary and Civil war sites.   This is Savannah, Georgia. Classic yet cool, historic yet hip, this “Hostess City of the South” magically melds the old with the new. SPANISH MOSS...

BY JANET STEINBERG La vie est belle.  Life is beautiful…on the high seas. Many years ago, an ocean liner’s slogan was “Getting there is half the fun”.  As a dyed-in-the-wool cruiseaholic, I am compelled to bring that slogan up to date for the 21st century.  My version has to be: “How...

BY JANET STEINBERG “In Dublin’s fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone…”  Just as the tragic ballad laments, there she stood greeting me at the top of Grafton Street.  In all her buxom bronze splendor, the 18th-century fish-monger is still drawing a crowd to...

BY JANET STEINBERG “I would not eat the soup of life with a fork; I would continue to use a big ladle.”                                                      George Lang, Holocaust Survivor/Restaurateur  TIME:...