Bob and Sandy Nesoff are an award-winning team of travel writers who have covered the globe from Africa to Tahiti, Europe and the United States. They discuss the good and the not so good of hotels, attractions, cruises and countries. Their articles range from the luxurious to adventuresome.
Puerto Rico has become one of the premier holiday and vacation destinations for millions of U.S. Mainlanders. Flights to the Caribbean island are frequent with a host of options and because it is part and parcel of the United States, entering, leaving and currency are not a problem. Flights from the three New York/New Jersey [...]
There was an old ribald limerick that told you what not to do in the summer when it was “…hot and sweaty…” but rather wait until the “…frost is on the punkin…” The same holds true for planning summer trips. The interesting and fun trips sell out fast and prices go up as well. If [...]
Winter on the shores of the Danube River in Budapest can be especially cold. The wind whips downstream over the waterway between the Buda and Pest sections bringing a bone-chilling frost that even those wrapped in furs and layered clothing cannot escape. The winter of 1944-45 was especially cold and the sight of more than [...]
Some people look at the world through rose colored glasses. Johann Straus may have been looking at the Danube River through sepia toned lenses. The composer of the Blue Danube Waltz may have been putting his own spin on a river that could have been blue on Feb. 13, 1867 when it made it debut [...]
There’s little doubt that New York City has, arguably, the best choice of top hotels in the world. By no means does this suggest that London, Paris and Bucharest have a paucity of upscale digs, but merely a statement of fact. When an editor suggests an article picking the five best hotels in New York, [...]
Too many people put travel plans on hold when winter approaches and snow looms on the horizon. Little do they know that not only are the usual sights still there to see—and a lot easier without the summer crowds—but winter brings a panache of its own. Zurich is a city that has managed to meld [...]
Traveling today requires more than the modicum of common sense necessary only a decade or two ago. Hotel break-ins have become more frequent; physical assaults, though not common, happen with greater frequency. Not that long ago a meeting of the top brass of a federal agent’s organization was underway at a major Chicago hotel. Mind [...]
Veterans are perhaps this country’s most forgotten minority group. With the exception of the parades and welcome they received following WWII, returning Korean vets were mostly ignored, those coming back from Vietnam were spat upon and there was a little bit of fan fare for those from the various Gulf actions. A while back we [...]
In 1979 South Africa was on the verge of becoming a pariah in the western world. Its system of apartheid rubbed against the grain of most civilized people. Signs directing people…human beings…to restroom facilities for whites and others for non-whites; water fountains that could be used by some and not others ran contrary to an [...]
Highland Falls, NY is a quaint and quiet little town sitting atop the cliffs overlooking the Hudson River. But from this serene vantage point some of the greatest military minds in the history of the United States have come to defend the country in wars from the Revolution to Afghanistan. Home to the world famed [...]
