ZSP : Is Nice still really nice?
ZSP : Is Nice still really Nice? Making the headlines these past few days was the $136 million jewelry heist made in broad daylight by a single man from the Carlton Hotel in Cannes on the French Riviera. Since we are scheduled to leave for the French Riviera in a few weeks, the news caught…
BEST of Cape Verde food : Cachupa !
Cachupa is the signature dish of the Cape Verde Islands in Africa. Similar to a French cassoulet, cachupa is a slow cooked stew of corn, beans, vegetables and meat or fish. Each island seems to have its own variation of the dish. Photo by IngredientMatcher The cachupa recipe below comes from capeverde-islands.com: Ingredients: 4…
Suzhou: paradise on earth?
Suzhou China, paradise on earth? Read our previous posting at “French Concession Shanghai” Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant who visited China around 1275 AD, wrote that if there is paradise on earth, it is in Suzhou and Hangzhou. I know Hangzhou well from my previous trips to China, and today we will be going to…
Viking River Cruises : best designed cabins afloat!
Viking River Cruises has been investing heavily in new ships with the launch of no fewer than 40 new river cruise Longships since 2012, all fairly identical 190-passenger ships. Recently, we were guests on one of those ships, the Viking Longship Tor, for an eight-day cruise down the Danube River from Nuremberg to Budapest. We…
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