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No Crowds: October 2013
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Thursday, October 03, 2013. No Crowds Bestows Top Award to World’s Nicest Hotel. Since when has No Crowds been dishing out travel awards? A consultant friend of mine told me to do it years ago, but I wasn’t inspired or ready. Now I am. This readiness comes from a stay at the Hotel La Perla. In Corvara, Italy this September with my mother and father, aged respectively 84 and 90. 8220;Great, Dad, who are you going with? What do you think is the best hotel? I am inte...
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No Crowds: Baatan Death March? No, our baby is going to college
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Saturday, April 19, 2014. No, our baby is going to college. The Boston Park Plaza Hotel. But the universities were great. Our child, our little Chouchou, was off and running towards her future. After all the discussion, meetings and SAT practice, our very English daughter was getting her first real taste of the American university experience and it looked, as we hoped it would, very appealing. She’s thinking of her favorite films -. Our hotel, The Jade. On Bleeker...
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No Crowds: October 2014
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Saturday, October 04, 2014. The Gardens at Highgrove. I visit gardens the way most folks watch MasterChef, I love to watch someone else perform but I haven’t a clue how to garden. Still, when the announcement arrived from my daughter’s school that tickets had been obtained to tour the Prince of Wales's gardens at Highgrove, I leapt at the chance. MasterChef Grand Finale here I come. Or you can call the booking office on 0207 766 7310. If you are a gardener beg, bo...
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No Crowds: June 2014
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Friday, June 13, 2014. I'm ready Bill Cunningham. It’s hot and sunny here. World Cup enthusiasm is in the air. It’s Friday and I am about to hit the streets of London. Get ready Bill Cunningham. But wait. He takes sartorial snaps on the streets of New York for the New York Times. There is absolutely no reason to dress for Bill Cunningham here in London. So here’s to you Bill Cunningham and just in case, I want you to know that I’m off to the dentist on...Italy for...
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No Crowds: I'm ready Bill Cunningham
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Friday, June 13, 2014. I'm ready Bill Cunningham. It’s hot and sunny here. World Cup enthusiasm is in the air. It’s Friday and I am about to hit the streets of London. Get ready Bill Cunningham. But wait. He takes sartorial snaps on the streets of New York for the New York Times. There is absolutely no reason to dress for Bill Cunningham here in London. So here’s to you Bill Cunningham and just in case, I want you to know that I’m off to the dentist on...Italy for...
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No Crowds: April 2014
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Saturday, April 19, 2014. No, our baby is going to college. The Boston Park Plaza Hotel. But the universities were great. Our child, our little Chouchou, was off and running towards her future. After all the discussion, meetings and SAT practice, our very English daughter was getting her first real taste of the American university experience and it looked, as we hoped it would, very appealing. She’s thinking of her favorite films -. Our hotel, The Jade. On Bleeker...
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No Crowds: June 2015
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. 8220;Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it.”. When I was growing up, my parents often travelled to faraway lands. It didn’t worry me during the day, but at night I dreamt over and over again that they died in a plane crash. So you can imagine the shock when she did die. And just when you thought she’d done it all, she’d head off again. ‘Where’s. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am interested in s...
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No Crowds: A Chef, a TV Show and Flash Fried Collards
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Saturday, July 19, 2014. A Chef, a TV Show and Flash Fried Collards. My daughter loves Master Chef. It’s charms are somewhat lost on this old curmudgeon. I haven’t been excited about a TV cook since Julia Child - until I was introduced to the award winning public broadcasting series “ A Chef’s Life. 8221; featuring an eastern North Carolina girl, a Yankee husband*, and a backwater called Kinston that has a real Civil War ironclad the CSS Neuse. 8221; “Look, ...
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No Crowds: It's Mother's Day Somewhere
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Friday, May 09, 2014. It's Mother's Day Somewhere. It's Mother's Day in America on Sunday. Today, I am republishing something that I wrote in 2009 when it was Mother's Day in the UK but not the US. Five years later, my mother is still up to her old tricks, I'm still getting my dates mixed up and it's still Mother's Day somewhere. So here’s to you Mom in America from daughter in England. Today’s your day. You rock. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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No Crowds: March 2014
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Great travel experiences without crowds. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The World's Nicest Hotel has a Baby. Every year since 2006 we have argued that the best skiing in Europe can be found in the Dolomites. The posts can be found here. And here’s a summary of why we have never felt the need to go anywhere else:. Dramatic scenery and delightful villages that offer the very best of Austrian and Italian traditions and culture. And now there’s another reason: The Berghotel Ladinia. Photo Credit: Gary Ransom.