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...
At the Spring-2015 Midwest Travel Writers Association (MTWA) meeting in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, it was announced that Janet Steinberg, official blogger for The Travel Authority, an ALTOUR company, was awarded the First Place Mark Twain Award for the Best Travel Writing Series of the...
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:...
BY JANET STEINBERG “Iceland is one of the most beautiful countries in the world…” Julie Christie, actor They shouldn’t call Iceland “Iceland". Once thought to be a cold barren place sans people, this Arctic land has no snow and ice in the summer. Berries, vegetables and flowers grow in many places and the sun...