Restaurant Review: Buca: Italian Heaven
Rob Gentile’s Buca is like heaven to me, an Italian heaven that is, a heaven where there is incredible food, wonderful wine, and superb service. Heaven was certainly on our minds last week as four friends gathered at Buca...
An Entire Year of Following Summer.
A day of travel and time for contemplation. The beginning of a year of living in the moment, following an intense period of planning, when it often seemed that we spent all our time living in the future as we laid the groundwork...
FSTravels NEWS Airlines Edition
What Accor’s Interest in Air France-KLM Means for the Travel Industry Nothing is official yet, far from it. Or as AccorHotels CEO Sebastien Bazin said Monday: “A bit too early” to speculate. But the possibility of Accor buying up...
Traveling in the Land of Charlemagne
N 51° E 003° Köln via Aachen to Gent: 303 kilometres Charlemagne is in evidence everywhere through these parts: his name, in its Latin, German, Dutch and Flemish forms appears on road signs schools, and bars as we drive through...
#FSTravels NEWS
Happy Hump Day: here is some Wednesday Wisdom to get you through the rest of your week. #TravelWell! ICYMI: WestJet Strike Averted as Mediation Talks Planned Canadians – and Canadian travel agents – can rest easier now that...
FSTravels NEWS
We are approaching our first long weekend here in Canada: Victoria Day Weekend, (a nod to our Commonwealth heritage) and as locals have named it The May 2-4 (a nod to a case of 24 beer that will no doubt be consumed this...
Searching for ‘Roos on Kangaroo Island, Australia
This is one of those days that Greg has been dreading. Up at 5:30!!!!! On the bus at 6:30 for the 2-hour ride to the ferry (45 minutes) that takes us across to Kangaroo Island, where there is a huge wildlife sanctuary, Flinders...
Everlasting Salvation at the Barron Gorge
I awake from a somewhat sleepless night of unfamiliar rainforest bird calls and various forms of cicada boisterously screeching in a constant crescendo and decrescendo, each species trying to outdo each other in noisy leg...
Cape Reinga: New Zealand’s Very North Tip.
Today is our first official family road trip. Ruth, John and I pack up the car and head north for the 2-hour drive to the very northern tip of New Zealand, Cape Reinga. John skillfully and successfully drives one of the cars on...
A Foraging Adventure in Wales
Fancy a foraging adventure? How about exploring the backcountry beauty and bounty of Wales while gathering food that’s fresh, tasty, local and more importantly free? It seems everyone is planning a foraging outing nowadays and...