Our one-week trip to Belgium over New Year’s can be simply summarized as: good. Pictures View Photos Lodging Hotel Welcome Places Visited Brussels Ghent Bruges Leuven Favorite ...

Serves 8 Ingredients 2 quarts eggnog 1 quart vanilla ice cream 1 cup rum 1/3 cup brandy 4 black cats plus 1 gray tabby cat 1 beige Shepherd-Husky dog Ground cinnamon and nutmeg to ...

Low hotel prices in New Orleans in December prompted a last-minute vacation in the cresent city. Katrina left the tourist areas alone but significantly reduced tourism. We returned encouraging ever...

The Samsung Sports Camera is a handy solid-state camcorder that produces MPeg4 video that does not work well with many video editors. The camera produces DIVX/XVid MPeg4 with a different fourCC sig...

We discovered the lightly touristed town of Ridgway while attending a wedding in nearby St. Marys, PA. The Towers Inn is a Victorian-era mansion loaded with charm and history and is well-worth the ...

Insertion of the wrong power adapter disabled our camcorder on the day of our flight. I have complained about the thing for years, so the error may have been subliminally intentional. Prior to dep...

This first day of June finds us in England’s Cotswolds region, a lush area of old stone mansions, antique shops, abundant hiking trails and Winston Churchill’s childhood home, Blenheim Palace. Cont...

Another pre-Christmas vacation, this time to Prague. Part pleasure, part business (I am writing an article on “Christmastime in Prague” for a culinary arts magazine), the trip is proving to be extr...

Kathy will post a more eloquent story shortly but Sean needs to use up some time at the internet cafe too. In short, Prague gives Paris some competition in the “most beautiful” city category. While...

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