" are the first words to greet you atWhilma's Filipino Restaurantin downtown Searcy, Arkansas. The phrase is familiar to anyone who's visited a Filipino home, and feels like a warm embrace for the few Filipinos in the state. As a young girl in the Philippines, chef Whilma Frogoso hon...
A true masterpiece of landscape architecture,Columbus Parkwas designed by the legendary Jens Jensen. Located in the Austin neighborhood, the park is home to quiet lagoons, natural-looking waterfalls, historic buildings, and tons of green space. In the spring, park-goers can spot water lilies, ...
Tuesday night, after our day exploring all over northwest Kyoto and walking over 7 3/4 miles, we went out to eat in our neighborhood. Our hotel is a 3-minute walk from the sprawling Kyoto Station yet is in a mostly quiet residential neighborhood. Mike found an Okonomiyaki restaurant, Nishi...
Obviously, the Gothic Quarter and Downtown is not the best place to stay for you! In your case I recommend the area around Poble Nou or El Clot. Here is the Hotel Novotel Barcelona. It has a great roof top terrace with a view over the city, and the area is more relaxed. Hope tha...
courtesy of the strand where to take in music providence is a town of die-hard music lovers, and no trip there would be complete without catching a live show. for bigger acts, check the schedule for the strand . for a mix of music and comedy, the columbus theater is an opulent old...
It’s from this district that a long list of famous Portuguese explorers headed off on their voyages of discovery. These include the likes of Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Ferdinand Magellan. Even Christopher Columbus himself stopped here on his journey back to Europe from the “New Worl...
We drove over to the dam that makes the Alum Creek Reservoir. Blaine walked to the top. Me? I’m down there in the teal top. And then we drove to Africa. Yep. I kid you not. Did you know you could access Africa from Central Ohio? I wonder if our friends from Columbus knew that...
When we rented a house out in Madaket, the first place we’d always go would be to Millie’s for dinner, and sometimes we’d go again on our last day. Now that we stay downtown, it seemed as if getting to Millie’s without a car was too much trouble. It’s not. ...
But rewind a few hundred years, well after Christopher Columbus himself landed here in 1494, and Jamaica was famous for pirates. The town of Port Royal was notorious for playing host to the swashbucklers. The beaches where the Buccaneers would often turn up are the very same beaches where tou...
Tonight I’m going with the wife and her sister and a friend to see Duran Duran at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacto. I haven’t been to a concert in… push the goats and carry the stone tablets up Mount Sinai… a very long time. ...