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jetsetters: @LolaDiMarco
Today’s Jetsetter has an alter ego: though her real name is Lauren, her sassier side goes by Lola. A contributor to HuffPo Travel and TravelDudes.org (two of our favorite sources for No Travel Required), we also recommend checking out Lauren’s personal travel blog for more travel tips and quips: where in the world is lola? And with her list of upcoming trips, we’ll try to put our jealousy aside and keep up. Let us know next time you’re in NYC, Lola! Enjoy! Favorite Place: St. Bart’s, French West Indies – it is tres chic just like Lola. More importantly, favorite meal: A multiple…
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no travel required
Not-so-secret secret: we love any excuse to act like a tourist. Tourism for Locals How do you not spend the rest of the day feeling super heebie-jeebie? I’m a mix of impressed and horrified by this traveler. In other news, we can add the “Siam Insect Zoo” to our list of places to avoid forever. My date with a baby scorpion at the Siam Insect Zoo However, on our list of places to go asap, you will now find this: What’s for Dinner at…Dinner by Heston Blumenthal Oh, and in case you haven’t heard: American Airlines Files for Bankruptcy But…
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tis the season!
Greetings from the land of the unemployed! Now that I’m temporarily back in Bucks County, I’ve got Christmas on the brain. It’s been all wreaths and cookies and decorating here. Today, I made my way to Peddler’s Village, one of my Bucks County favs, to do some Christmas shopping and to check out the annual Gingerbread house display. This year, my favorites included Hagrid’s Hut and Old McGregor’s farm from Peter Rabbit! The next few days will be busy busy busy while I prepare for my move back to the District. Not too busy to wrap all the presents I just…
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london: hits & hmms (part two!)
So where were we? Everything in London was perfect and lovely and everything I ever wanted? Bingo. (Ok but like also, if anyone would like to hire me for pretty much anything, I will do it if it involves moving to London. Just putting that out there). In other news, this post morphed into more of a photo essay of the second half of our trip, and I’m ok with that. I think they’ll explain my favorites from the last few days more than I can verbalize. So! Without further ado: Premium Tours: Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, and Bath We originally…
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no travel required
Happy Friday! We’re The Wino is too poor to indulge in the Black Friday craziness, so our gift to you instead is the following travel links. Enjoy! We couldn’t pick just one of these photos for our travel photo of the day, so we’re giving you all of them. 60 Breathtaking Fall Images Not sure how we feel about this, but we have to trust the experts, right? Could a Paper Wine Bottle Design Really Work? True story: both of us have rode camels through the desert at one point in our lives (though on separate continents.) Obsessed with this photo…
