This week Gumbo looks at Reykjavik in our Capital of Culture spotlight. In 2000, for symbolic reasons, 9 European cities were chosen to be designated a European Capital of Culture. One of those was the city of…
Yelp, the popular crowd-source review site, will now offer Los Angeles County’s health grades for restaurants as part of its reviews. With public health grades for restaurants happening in more and more cities, including New York, will this become a …
The annual international Snow Sculpture competition will be held Jan. 21-25 in Breckenridge, CO., with winning works on display through Feb. 2. The sculptors work from 12-foot tall 20-ton blocks of snow; only hand tools are…
This is a great sale on US Air.$128 roundtrip Philadelphia-Las Vegas- including taxes and fees. Search for dates on Kayak or Google Flights. I’ve seen some of these prices all the way up to March but there are plenty of dates in…
This is the second in a 4 part series highlighting my visit to the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. You can read part 1, which discusses the history of the Museum and its great Czech car collection by clicking here. Today’s post features the…
Basking in the warmth of an unusually sunny and delightful English summer, there is nothing nicer, particularly if you are a hot horse, than being able to queue up for a cooling ice cream cone at the Winstones ice cream van.
This week Gumbo looks at Reykjavik in our Capital of Culture spotlight. In 2000, for symbolic reasons, 9 European cities were chosen to be designated a European Capital of Culture. One of those was the city of…
Yelp, the popular crowd-source review site, will now offer Los Angeles County’s health grades for restaurants as part of its reviews. With public health grades for restaurants happening in more and more cities, including New York, will this become a …
The annual international Snow Sculpture competition will be held Jan. 21-25 in Breckenridge, CO., with winning works on display through Feb. 2. The sculptors work from 12-foot tall 20-ton blocks of snow; only hand tools are…
This is a great sale on US Air.$128 roundtrip Philadelphia-Las Vegas- including taxes and fees. Search for dates on Kayak or Google Flights. I’ve seen some of these prices all the way up to March but there are plenty of dates in…
This is the second in a 4 part series highlighting my visit to the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. You can read part 1, which discusses the history of the Museum and its great Czech car collection by clicking here. Today’s post features the…
Basking in the warmth of an unusually sunny and delightful English summer, there is nothing nicer, particularly if you are a hot horse, than being able to queue up for a cooling ice cream cone at the Winstones ice cream van.