Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro with my daughter
Originally posted Nov 1, 2010 By Eileen Ogintz It’s well below freezing, and the air is so thin that we have to stop every few steps to breathe. I’ve never been more tired. Childbirth was easier. We haven’t showered in days. Our clothes are filthy, and this is...
TIME TO GO FISHING AGAIN – to a great resort in Canada
Trooper sizes up Lady Evelyn Lake Originally posted April 18, 2011 By Andy Yemma Hard to believe after one of the snowiest winters I’ve ever experienced, but summer is coming. And that means fishing. When our kids were little and we lived in...
The Chick Flies the Coop
Ballymaloe House In Ireland Originally posted May 27, 2010 By Eileen Ogintz “This is going to be the first time truly putting my travel skills from growing up to the test but I know it is just the beginning,” my youngest daughter Mel wrote in the “thank you” note she...
Two weeks in France visiting Paris, champagne country and Normandy via river cruise
Originally posted 2013 By Eileen OgintzDAY ONE — PARIS — Claude Monet certainly knew what he was talking about. The area in the Musee de L’Orangerie in Paris that he created to showcase his famous Water Lilies is meant, he said then, to create a space...
A real pasta machine: in the charming village of Grazie
Pasta machine at work in Grazie Italy Original post from 2014 By Eileen Ogintz Mantova, Italy (Day Six) — “Come look at our pasta maker,” says Danieela Bellintani who with her husband Fernando own the charming small restaurant La Locanda de le Grazie in the...
Skiing in Austria
Mel and Eileen in Austria Originally posted Oct 11, 2009 By Eileen OgintzTribune Media Services I’ve never seen such wide open slopes — no trees, no houses, just field after field of newly fallen snow. And I’ve never seen my 18-year-old daughter Mel,...
Taking the kids to ski country in summer
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency Chat up a local in Ski Country and they will tell you they came for the winter and ended up staying for the summer. That would include my daughter Mel, who went to Crested Butte, Colorado, for a season after college and nearly...
Bon Bini from Curacao, a gem in the Southern Caribbean
By Eileen Ogintz Bon Bini means welcome in Papiamentu, language of Curacao, a gem of an island with 150,000 people in the Southern Caribbean. Papiamentu emerged as the local language spoken everywhere in this area — from African languages, Spanish, Dutch,...
The Big Apple is back!
By Eileen Ogintz Shops and restaurants are packed again in New York City. So are museums like the American Museum of Natural History with the new Discover the World of Sharks exhibit (love the touchless interactives!) and the renewed Northwest Coast Hall showcasing...
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