What the hell is Florida thinking?

How a crackdown on illegal immigrants would affect all foreigners and could hurt the state’s biggest industry. What the hell is Florida thinking? Seriously! Tourism is Florida’s biggest industry, injecting $65 billion into the state’s economy every year. Sixty-five BILLION dollars. And over a MILLION jobs. Yet the state could be about to jeopardise all [...]

Photo Friday: Amish road sign in New York

Western New York; July 2010 Now this is about as far as you can get from Manhattan and still be in New York! You could call it the opposite of Sex and the City. After my trip to New York City in June I visited a little-known part of New York State – the Cassadaga [...]

Chocolate martini at Ayza in Manhattan

Cocktails and chocolate in Midtown Manhattan. When I planned my trip to New York, I genuinely thought eight days would be enough time. After all, it wasn’t like I was visiting the city for the first time. I figured the TBEX travel bloggers conference would take two days, so that would leave six days to [...]

UN of food: Colombian and Uruguayan food in Queens

My culinary adventures in New York City continued in Queens. My Brooklyn-based host Mike was keen for a Queens outing so I met up with him after work and we caught the F train out to Jackson Heights. I had originally intended to go to Queens earlier in the day so I could visit some [...]

Behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rare glimpse at how one of the world’s top museums does its restoration work on art and artifacts. On the Thursday before the TBEX travel blogging conference, I joined a small group of travel bloggers on a special tour with Context Travel. Context offers walking tours in a few cities around the world – [...]

Video: Street pianos in New York

Manhattan, NY; June 2010 I can’t help myself – when I see a piano, I want to play with it. I say with because my rudimentary skills mean that I am not really playing the piano, just fooling around. I can peck out part of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy with my right hand and that’s [...]

Photo Friday: Rainbow bus in Golden Gate Park

San Francisco; June 2010 Colourful bus parked on John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on a warm summer’s day. I think the people on the front are cleaning the windscreen, but I’m not sure. What does it look like to you? The bus looks very Northern California to me – very [...]

Pearltrees lunch at Waterbar San Francisco

I’ve just got back from a lunch at Waterbar on Embarcadero in San Francisco with six other bloggers. We were hosted by Patrice Lamothe of a new social media company called Pearltrees. I greatly enjoyed the lunch and found the Pearltrees concept very interesting. Waterbar I eat out a lot but I rarely write about [...]

Best of the Web: New York in the blogosphere

A collection of links about New York City and Long Island. It isn’t long to go before a host of travel bloggers is due to descend on New York City for the TBEX conference. Thanks to the generosity of my readers, I’ll be among them. After spending some time in the city, I’m heading to [...]

Photo Friday: Guy with gas-mask bong in San Francisco

San Francisco; September 2009 The great thing about city life is the unexpected. You certainly meet all types, especially in San Francisco. I was greatly entertained by this unexpected encounter, on a bus heading downtown from Golden Gate Park last September. I had taken my friend Jules, who was staying with us for a few [...]

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