If you are seeing Italy by way of guided tour with Comfort Tour, you are in for a real treat.  Italy offers far more than excellent pasta, pizza and strong red wines.  This stunning country is steeped in history, art and culture.  When you…

If you are touring Spain, Spanish cuisine has a dazzling variety of both regional and national dishes and, as you know, makes liberal use of olive oil and red wine. Lunch For the Spaniards, lunch (comida) is still the biggest meal of the day….

When I look back at all the countries and cities I have visited, I realize that I’m reasonably well travelled. I enjoyed a visit to beautiful Venice as a young 16 year old but naively arrived at St. Marks’ Basilica wearing short shorts and…

Easily accessible by most subway lines, Union Square is full of life on the weekends. Get off at Union Square Station or 14th Street. Saturday is Farmer’s Market day at Union Square. Vendors set up stalls and tents selling seasonal fruits & vegetables, home…

Emphasizing on the dining etiquette in Italy for Tourists is important in order to ensure that they do not unnecessarily or accidentally offend the locals. This holds true not only in Italy, but virtually anywhere that you want to go. It is not surprising…

A variety of great ‘Streetfests are either happening or about to happen in the great city of Chicago! I thought some of our Chicago visitors may want to complete their visit by joining in.. 1. Randolph Street Market Festival…the first of four of these…

Also wanted to mention a few enjoyable eating spots I recently found in NYC…One is on 45th St. at Park Avenue and close to Grand Central Station…great Italian and quite affordable called ‘Naples 45‘…another one I enjoyed was ‘Bubba Gumps Shrimp‘ on Broadway in…

I thought you may want to know in case you don’t already that the “Terra Cotta Warriors” the Defenders of Chinas First Emperor are on display at the Discovery Times Square in New York City… Only nine (9) of the estimated 8000 entombed in Xian in…

This year (2012) marks the 100th year anniversary of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC. In 1912, Japan gave 3,020 cherry blossom trees to the United States as a gift to celebrate the two nations growing friendship. The cherry blossom trees continue…

Spring is in bloom at the annual Macy’s Flower Show! Step into Towers of Flowers and discover a magical world of soaring floral architecture, magnificent rolling landscapes and specialty gardens bursting with color, fragrance and imagination. Macys Flower Show runs March 27 through April…