Air France to New York

Ce billet concerne mon vol de Paris à New York la semaine dernière.  A titre privé, j’ai voyagé à New York sur mon propre budget et donc en économie, pour assister à ma 20e anniversaire depuis que j’ai quitté l’Université de Yale. ...

Nice airport

If only for the English sounding name of this city, Nice might well have been named the City of the English. As it stands, we have the pre-eminent Promenade des Anglais. Yet, flying Easyjet, the French crew spoke of “boarding” instead of...

Rip Off Tourist Bus in London

If only a cathartic exercise, we would like to share with you our disappointing family experience on a recent tour with The Original London Sightseeing Bus Tour. 1-/ The buses were dirty. The smell was disgusting, particularly in one bus. 2-/ The buses were packed,...

Luxury prisons – rent your cell

I was quite titillated by an IHT article last week (April 30) entitled “For $82 a day, a cozier way to do hard time.” This article opened my eyes to the concept of how wealthier prisoners in certain California prisons (ex Santa Ana) are able and allowed to...

Queen’s Day in Amsterdam

Queen’s Day is a weekend of extravagance in Amsterdam. Concerts, orange shirts, beers and garbage sprawled across the streets. It is a moment of tremendous frivolity, much aided by the glorious sunny weather on this weekend. On this trip, I was spoiled by two...

Travel pleasures… another improvement on the road

Sometimes, when traveling, you want to just be able to pick up all the good things and bring them back to your home country… like food specialties or quaint cultural traditions. So, on this trip, speaking as a frequent traveler, I found yet another “good thing” to...

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