Wineries! Potomac Eagle Dinner Train West Virginia is open for business and #vacation #travel fun! Come on down! NOTE:Due to possible COVID-19 restrictions, which seem to be changing daily, before you travel or book Anything, CALL every place you want to go and make SURE they are open and operating! Read more…
Wine! Food! Penguini! As many of you know, I am a “sweeper” and a contest-junkie. While my friends are playing Candy Crush and Farmville at 2a.m. on Facebook, I am often entering sweeps and contests… LOTS of sweeps and contests! And while the downside is I get 1000+ emails a Read more…
Wangfeng Hanging Restaurant Our Balcony Stateroom Cruising on the Yangtze River! When I planned out our month in China I HAD to find a way to include a cruise on the Yangtze River! For the 40+ years I’d dreamed of going to China, a cruise down the Yangzte and getting Read more…
Chef Dan flambes! Baiju in Chengdu! The Greatest Noodle Chef… As the six faithful readers of my blog know (yes, that’s an LOL), my chef husband and I recently spent a pretty amazing month in China, eating our way across the country by train! We began our month in Shanghai, Read more…
The Cricket Fighting Master of Beijing! Me and Singing Grasshoppers! Rickshaw fun! Mr. Liu and the singing grasshoppers! Dan and our Rickshaw Driver… Trading Places! In perusing all the many tours available in Beijing, I short-listed many, but one in particular stuck with me- the opportunity to explore several Hutongs Read more…
Wine tasting at the Changyu Winery! The Great Wall The Great Wine: Changyu Wine Chateau Wine Tasting at Changyu For anyone contemplating a trip to China, walking The Great Wall is a “Must-Do”, even if you just walk a bit of it, and so it was absolutely essential I find Read more…
The Forbidden City Peking Duck at Duck de Chine… Our palatial Chairman’s Suite at the Beijing Hotel NUO! Meat-on-a-Stick at Wangfujing! In honor of our Third Second Honeymoon (which I had emailed them about when I booked…), the gorgeous and historic Beijing Hotel NUO (originally Raffles) gave us an Read more…
Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the historic Peace Hotel on our Shanghai-Lander “Breakfast and Bund” Tour, Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, with Miki Tours. I booked this tour through Viator, as Read more…
This post is a GREAT BIG THANK YOU! As my five faithful readers know, I am a terrible sweeper and contest-enterer. The first time I entered a contest- Oil of Olay’s “Most Romantic Summer” contest back in 2002- I actually won it- a totally fabulous trip with hubs to The Read more…