BY: JANET STEINBERG Who would have dreamed it? Certainly, I could not have! As a young girl, bored to death in a geography class that spoke of sultans, straits, and seven continents, I could never have dreamed where I would be six decades later. THERE I WAS...
BY: JANET STEINBERG THE THREE SEAS: AEGEAN…MEDITERRANEAN…ADRIATIC… Three majestic, magnificent seas brought me triple delights on my Crystal Serenity cruise from Istanbul, Turkey to Venice, Italy. In addition to sailing me to far away places with strange sounding names (like Kusadasi, Kotor, and Thira), these three seas afforded...
SoCal So Cool: 50 Miles of Pure Pleasure LAGUNA BEACH: PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ BY: JANET STEINBERG Part four of a series On the last leg of our 50-mile Southern ...
SoCal So Cool: 50 Miles of Pure Pleasure BY: JANET STEINBERG Part 3 of a series LONG BEACH: This harbor-side city, 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was given its name in 1888 because of its 5.5-mile stretch of sandy beaches. This was...
Redondo Beach: Always More to Sea BY: JANET STEINBERG Part two of a series Since the 1800s, Redondo Beach has provided more to ‘sea’ in Southern California, dubbed SoCal by the locals. Located just 7 miles south of Los Angeles International Airport and 18 miles from downtown L.A.,...
SoCal So Cool: 50 Miles of Pure Pleasure BY: JANET STEINBERG Part one of a series The vibrant City of Angels is a city I have visited numerous times. From there I have often driven directly down the California coast to San Diego. Little did I know...
By Janet Steinberg There are said to be only three places in the world with a Mediterranean climate: The actual Mediterranean coast…Catalina Island, California…and the coast of Chile around Santiago. And, if you work it right, you could enjoy the best of The Med’s climate 12 months...
2011: The year in Retrospect By: Janet Steinberg When someone tells you about a place, you hear it. When someone shows you a picture of a place, you see it. But when you discover that place yourself, you remember it. Be it volcanoes or earthquakes, sunshine or storms, glaciers or...
by Janet Steinberg THE BEACH: Ahhhhh, the beach! What can I say about Zplage, the Hotel Martinez’s private sandy beach where I chose to spend half a day? I can only say that it was divine, delicious, gorgeous, hedonistic, and sybaritic. Ocean-blue sun beds are lined up like sailors on...
By Janet Steinberg The dictionary may tell you that “la dolce vita” is Italian for "the sweet life". But let me tell you that Cannes (France’s second most important city next to Paris) is really la dolce vita. Welcome to Cannes, France The French Riviera city of Cannes...