Monthly Archives: January 2015

Hurtigruten Cruise vs. Celebrity X Cruise – A Quest For Value

By |2019-05-25T12:07:43-05:00January 14th, 2015|Categories: Europe, South America|

Value and service. For the traveler, this can be an elusive combination. For the vendor, is the goal to pad your margins or to grow customer relations? The answer for many is to pilfer their customers. Value and relationships be damned. When choosing a hotel, like many, I look for “free Wi-Fi”; in fact it is [...]

Three Days In Sanaa, Yemen

By |2019-05-25T11:26:34-05:00January 3rd, 2015|Categories: Asia, Off The Beaten Path|

It was the summer of 2009.  Both a great and a bad time to visit the Middle East.  Great, because it was prior to the Arab Spring and it was a much more stable time to visit the region.  And bad, because every day simmered at over 100 degrees.  I was tired of sweating incessantly. As [...]

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