Opera knows no season. Some cities prefer summer performances, other prefer the fall season. There are also many distinct forms of opera. Every opera has its own distinct venue where musical masterpieces are performed. It might be a turn-of-the-century opera house or a multi-use structure that...
Janet Steinberg, official blogger for The Travel Authority, was awarded her 55th travel writing award in Best Travel Website or Blog in the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Central States Chapter Writing Contest. Steinberg’s 55 travel-writing awards include: 5 Lowell Thomas Awards; 28 Mark Twain Awards; 19...
Savor “The Great Land”. Taste the grandeur that is Alaska. Feel the freedom, the freshness, the far reach of our last frontier. The Alaska experience is one of the great travel experiences of a lifetime ALASKA! A land of contrasts. Here is exhilaration and sophistication; glaciers...
SINGAPORE: "Boring." "Sterile." "Lost its soul." Singapore, the tropical island in the Strait of Malacca, has been accused of all of the above. However, Singapore, a tiny city-state founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, is none of the above. Although the Singapore of the 21st century is...
There are two things I missed the most over the past pandemic years...
“God only made water”, stated Victor Hugo, “man made wine.” And what better place to taste that wine than in Bordeaux and the surrounding Aquitaine region, The historical region of Aquitaine, the largest region of France, forms the southwestern corner of France. It is the region of ‘quackers’ and cheese…where...
Manaus is the premier port city put on the map by the landed aristocracy in the 1800s. At that time, it was one of the richest cities in the world. For many years Manaus, carved out of the very heart of the Amazonian wilderness, was a...
“All you need is love, love…Love is all you need.” In 1967 The Beatles put those words to music. Fifty-five years later those words still hold true. To celebrate love on Valentine’s Day…or any day… an amorous atmosphere can be the special something that will...
The good ole summertime is river time, and cruising the rivers of the world has become a rapidly increasing choice for travelers. There is an excitement brought about by the motion of a river...
The year 2021 has come and gone. Some of us traveled, some of us didn’t. Some of us dreamed about where we had traveled before covid put our travel plans on hold, while others made their own “Once Before I Die” list (sometimes called a...