By Kyle Winkler Travel Agents are a Traveler’s best resource. In today’s world, the internet makes so many things accessible. Have a question, go to Ask.com. Want a new recipe? Google it. Is there something or someone you want to know more about? Try Wikipedia. Sometimes it...
By Janet Steinberg “The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.”Samuel Johnson 1776 How many times have you thought (or heard someone say) “been there, done that”? Well, my friends, when you think you’ve done it all…do nothing…but do it with panache.Having cruised...
Part 2 By Janet Steinberg PORT STANLEY, FALKLAND ISLANDS: As the Silver Whisper approached Stanley Harbour (632-nautical miles from Puerto Madryn) we observed tin-roofed homes perched on hillsides and uncultivated treeless moors sweeping down toward Golfo Nuevo Bay. Stanley Harbour is one of the world’s largest graveyards for...
By Janet Steinberg Part 1 After two glorious days in Buenos Aires, we boarded Silversea’s Silver Whisper for the 3902-nautical mile voyage to Santiago. Directly due west of Buenos Aires, a short flight could have taken us to Santiago in a few hours. However, opting for the long way...
PART 2 OF A SERIES Written by Janet Steinberg "In Buenos Aires. I shall have a flat with Europe for its balcony...
Special Edition Post: Melissa Ghazi, Marketing Manager at The Travel Authority / ALTOUR If you are in the Cancun area on vacation I highly recommend you to take a day trip to the famous Chichen Itza, or as the natives tell us tourist to rhyme it...
Special All Inclusive Vacation Edition Post: Melissa Ghazi, Marketing Manager at The Travel Authority / ALTOUR It was 2:30pm Central Time when my husband and I landed in Cancun, Mexico. This was my second time coming to beautiful Mexico. I had once stopped here for 6...
By Janet Steinberg SILVER WHISPER TURNS WINTER INTO SUMMER Over the past decade, my travel group (known as Doc Irv’s Mermaids) formed a strong bond with each other. So strong a bond that we felt we would go to the end of the earth FOR each other. This time...
“There's a small hotel, with a wishing well, I wish that we were there together…” Rodgers and Hart 1936by Janet Steinberg I surely don’t remember that song when Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote it in 1936. But, at the risk of dating myself, I do...
A Standard of Elegance. By Janet Steinberg HOTEL NEGRESCO: This Belle Époque palace, the Grand Dame of the French Riviera in Nice, France is a wedding cake-like confection iced in pink and green. With its sweeping view of Nice’s Bay of Angels, the Negresco was classified a National Historic Monument in...