Binibeca Vell is Blonde's location version of an ideal date: attractive, well groomed, friendly but not intrusive and doesn't expect you to spend the night after enjoying its pleasures. When Blonde and Brunette went to Spain for the TBEX Travel Bloggers' Conference we managed to turn a three day conference into a three week trip. Five days were spent on Menorca, one of … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Should Blonde go to Marseille for her (next) 40th birthday?
Blonde enjoys turning 40 and does so repeatedly. Other than one time when she turned 40 and demanded that "attention must be paid" she really doesn't care that it's her birthday. However, as Brunette's hubby is becomingly increasingly suspicious of the "need" for us to travel together so much we are becoming more creative in our rationales. (And then, if he doesn't fall for one … [Read more...]
TTD in Florida
When we travel Brunette is often afflicted by Temporary Travel Deafness (TTD). Hers is caused by flying. The air pressure changes appear to extract the sense from her ears which leads to many humorous exchanges. Our classic favorite is from a flight to Athens. The cart for meal service was coming down the aisle and Blonde heard the flight attendants ask each passenger "chicken … [Read more...]
Our Marco Island, Florida Everglades jet ski adventure with Captain Ron’s
Brunette has always enjoyed Florida and has migrated here for at least a brief period of time every winter for nearly 20 years. Blonde saw Florida as consisting of the Disney crowd of bed wetters or the Codger crowd of bed wetters. Then last summer Brunette and her grumpy hubby purchased a condo on Marco Island in Florida. Blonde thought they were nuts. (She still thinks … [Read more...]
Sushi for (some) one in Marco Island, Florida
Many days the thought of coming up with new content for the blog is so taxing that the stress can only be alleviated by consuming chocolate and wine. Today our blog topic was figuratively dropped into our laps and literally dropped into our swimming pool. The way to recognize that good fortune turned out to also be with chocolate and wine but with a celebratory, not consoling, … [Read more...]
Turks and Caicos in the Picture the World photo project
The Departure Board has a project of compiling representative photos of all of the countries in the world. This is ours that we submitted for Turks and Caicos and it was accepted and posted today. This is an interesting project to follow. Here's the url: http://www.thedepartureboard.com/tag/picture-the-world-project Maybe you have a photo to enter for a place not yet … [Read more...]
Places We’ve Loved: Genoa
When Blonde and Brunette planned our trip to the Cinque Terre and the Italian Riviera we scheduled a stopover in Genoa. We expected Genoa to be exactly that - a stopover, not a destination. As is our habit we bumbled into town in a small car strewn about with our possessions hoping we would be able to find the Hotel Bristol Palace where we had reservations. As we were arriving … [Read more...]
Lessons in selecting a mate as learned in the Sacred Monkey Forest of Bali
When the book and then the movie Eat, Pray, Love were wildly popular desolately single women went en masse on tours to Bali. They yearned to be told their fate by Ketut Liyer, an ancient healer and lady-fate predictor, get overnight spiritual transformations and meet sensitive and adoring (yet manly) men. Men wanted to go anywhere but Bali. They (probably rightfully) … [Read more...]
On the Geezer Express to Florida
Several months ago Brunette and her enjoyably much maligned husband, Blonde's brother-in-law, bought a condo in San Marco, Florida. This would provide a place where Brunette could go to escape Pennsylvania winters and her husband. (He was only informed of the first part of that value proposition.) After spending two weeks there with his bride the hubby/b-i-l had flown home the … [Read more...]
A New York (City) State of Mind
A blonde WASP, a brunette Jew and a bald woman of unknown religious affiliation in a wool cap walk into a bar in New York City and.......hang out with one of the handsome young stars of a Broadway play. You didn't see that one coming did you? Blonde recently went on a quick trip to New York City with a longtime friend (Jew with hair, aka Renee) and her friend (bald woman in … [Read more...]