travel

A Slice of Paradise – Soufriere, St. Lucia Sights

December 12, 2014

We’ve been back from our much-needed trip to paradise for a few weeks and yet every time I look at pictures, I feel like we were just there. And now that it is getting chillier outside, I especially like to fondly remember the beautiful warm weather! Now I must confess that I never did do […]

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Trip Tease — Soufriere, St. Lucia

November 25, 2014

In case you couldn’t tell from my Facebook/Twitter/Instagram activity last week, we were in St. Lucia belatedly celebrating our 10th anniversary! We stayed at the Fond Doux Resort &Plantation in Soufrière, St. Lucia and saw some sights and had lots of tasty bites during our stay. I’ve uploaded most of the pics I took and plan […]

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Sleepless in Seattle – BlogHerFood 2012

June 13, 2012

I’m still recovering from my weekend in Seattle for BlogHer Food 2012. From Thursday afternoon to Sunday evening, it was a whirlwind of friends, networking, learning, and eating! There wasn’t time for a lot of sleeping, unfortunately, which is why I’m a bit useless at the moment! Thursday night set the tone for the rest […]

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Into Africa: Masai Mara Sights and Bites

May 20, 2012

**This is the third  in a series of re-caps of our trip through Friendly Planet Travel to Kenya and Istanbul last November.  The first and second installments can be found here and here.** If you’ve been reading my re-caps, you’re probably starting to wonder where all the fun safari pics are.  Your patience has finally […]

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Into Africa: Lake Naivasha Sights and Bites

February 7, 2012

**This is the second in a series of trip re-caps from our Kenya and Istanbul trip last November.  The first of the re-caps can be found here.** If I told you we stayed at a lodge on a reserve where you could look from your balcony and see wildlife just feet away and where you […]

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Into Africa: Nairobi Sights and Bites

December 18, 2011

It’s been 3 weeks since we’ve returned from our trip and I’m still working on going through photos and figuring how to best re-cap the trip. Rather than go day-by-day, I’ve decided to break it up based on where we stayed.  So up first is Nairobi! We arrived in the very wee hours of the […]

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Eating our way to Kenya

November 28, 2011

Consider this the (long) intro to our trip, if you will. Our flight to Nairobi via Istanbul didn’t leave from JFK until nearly 11 pm, so most normal people would accordingly book their flight from Atlanta to NY so that they had a decent enough layover to account for weather, transit between Laguardia and JFK, […]

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3 Continents, 10 Days of Adventure

November 27, 2011

And we’re finally back from our whirlwind tour of Kenya and Turkey! I have some serious jet-lag to overcome, mountains of laundry, and approximately eleventy-billion pics to upload and sort through. Though I’m glad to be back home, I still can’t believe our vacation is over.  We saw so many incredible sights, tasted some unforgettable […]

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To Africa and Beyond!

November 16, 2011

The traveling bug has hit again! I barely had time to unpack from the 2011 FoodBuzz Festival when I had to shift into vacation gear. After our trip to China last year, Mr. Spice and I decided that we should try to do a trip this year if we could. However, we both had different […]

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