Stepping Back in Time at Ooedo-Onsen Monogatari Hot Springs, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan
Ooedo-Onsen Monogatari is a hot springs spa theme park styled after an Edo-era town center. Once you walk through the doors and sign in at the front desk, it’s time to move through the magic time travel curtains. You find yourself transported back in time to a festival evening — stars in the sky and…
D.C.’s Best Classic Comfort Food
Walking into Martin’s Tavern is like taking a trip through time. While equestrian paintings are the prominent artwork on display, don’t be fooled into thinking this is a horse-themed restaurant. The original owner, Billy (William S. Martin), was a pro basketball, football, and baseball star who opened this Georgetown watering hole in 1933. Billy was…
Think Small to Sample D.C.’s Biggest Names in Fine Dining
Jose Andres — now a nationally-renowned chef with restaurants from South Beach to Beverly Hills — opened Jaleo, his first, in Washington’s Penn Quarter entertainment district in 1993. Recently renovated, Jaleo is bright and lively with large windows looking to the busy sidewalks outside. Our favorite dishes here include sauteed spinach with pine nuts, raisins,…
World’s Oldest Working Restaurant: Centuries-Old Charm and Timeless Quality are Botin’s Secret Ingredients for Success
Sobrino de Botin is the oldest working restaurant in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Founded by a French chef in 1725, Botin is now owned by Antonio Gonzalez and his family. Every day, they serve their world-famous roast suckling pig and roast lamb to tourists, celebrities, royalty, and regulars alike.
Easter Times Three in New Orleans
According to the French Quarter bartender serving my Sazarac, “the Easter Parade was the brainchild of ‘a well-preserved 80-year-old showgirl and her curated contingent of NOLA [New Orleans, Louisiana] friends.’” My back home NOLA-to-Seattle-expat colleague assured me the Easter parade would illustrate the grand tradition of genteel Southern ladies dressed in their Easter bonnets accompanied…
Unique Travel Experiences For 2016
Oh what a year! Happy New Year to you and your family! Wherever you find yourself today… I hope that you’re staying warm, having fun, and surrounded by friends or family. From all of us at Great Escape Publishing to you… thank you for reading, writing in, sharing your comments on our Facebook page, traveling,…
1,000 Marbles Story: Change Your Saturdays From Now On
It’s the first day of a new year and the last thing I want to talk to you about today is productivity, goal setting, and resolutions. So instead, let’s talk about Saturdays. We have one coming up tomorrow. And barring anything tragic, we have one coming up every week from now until the day we…
Does A Travel Writer Need A Writing Niche?
Honored to have shared my success story with a group of new writers at the 2015 Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver, I noted a prevailing question among attendees – how to find their writing “niche” and what that means. Not hard for me to understand at all. I left the 2014 workshop in San…
Fun holiday light photo trick
Happy Holidays! I don’t know about you, but for me the holidays are always a bit of a blur between the get-togethers, the gifts, the endless cookies and the eggnog — which gets a little extra blurry with a little splash of bourbon. Speaking of blurry… let’s talk about a fun photo trick you can…
Write Multiple Travel Stories From Your Trip
Other than the fact that it’s one of Latin America’s strongest economies and an emerging hub for start-ups and outsourcing, I didn’t know a lot about Chile before landing in Santiago Airport last September. Outdoorsy friends had spoken of amazing landscapes on par with those of Argentina to the east. And I’d tasted enough Chilean…
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