This past Sunday evening watching television took us down memory lane to an earlier family vacation. No, we did not attend the Oscars in a previous year (or life): the CBC show, The Republic of Doyle, was set this week in the Newfoundland town of Brigus on Conception Bay http://www.cbc.ca/republicofdoyle/episodes/in-brigus-1.html. In July 2011 my husband’s […]
We discovered on our family trip in January that we are not cruisers. The girls had been pretty certain their father would never turn into a fan of cruising, but they weren’t as sure about themselves or me. It turns out none of us were wild about it. It did not help that we only […]
To continue the saga of our family vacation, we boarded the Carnival Imagination for a four-day cruise. We left Miami at about sunset on a Monday and arrived Tuesday morning about 7:00 a.m. at Key West. We chose not to join any of the Carnival excursions, but bought our own tickets for a hop-on hop-off tour […]
As indicated in an earlier blog, my family went on a cruise vacation last week. I found the hotel we stayed at in Miami prior to the cruise on Tripadvisor, and I have posted some comments about the hotel on Tripadvisor at http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g34438-d87137-Reviews-The_Mutiny_Hotel-Miami_Florida.html under FLWfans. One thing I did not mention about the hotel in the […]
Now that my two adult children finally have current passports (who lets their parents book and pay for a trip without checking that their passport is valid?), I can begin planning what may turn into our last adventure as a group of four. Our family Christmas present for 2012 was a winter vacation: fly to […]
Returning to the Social Media Certificate program forces me to again ponder joining Facebook, a decision I dodged during the introductory course. I would hate to miss out on what could be some interesting discussions, but will it be worth the potential distraction, time suck and loss of privacy? I am already overwhelmed with feeds […]
While I was researching information for my sixth blog about the most effective type of content for my company or organization, I came across this blog that is pretty well universal to all Web content: 23 Questions to ask yourself before posting a blog or web content. As a writer and editor I love checklists for […]
For my blog comparing a successful Social Media campaign to an unsuccessful Social Media campaign, I am back to one of my favourite social-media tools, TripAdvisor. I will be comparing another favourite of mine, The Kimpton Hotel chain, to The Original London Sightseeing Tour. Kimpton is a relatively new boutique chain of hotels operating solely […]
Tom and I continued our trip with me looking into TripAdvisor recommendations the entire way, somewhat unsuccessfully. On arriving in London from Paris late Sunday afternoon we discovered that we were at the wrong hotel in the chain. Tom’s admin assistant had booked us into a different one from the hotel that I had done […]
My husband has travelled for business on a regular basis for the past 35 years, and considers himself the more seasoned traveler whenever we take a trip together. I had been happy to go along with most of his suggestions until we discovered TripAdvisor a few years back at http://www.tripadvisor.ca/. While Tom concedes that the […]
Peggy's Ponderings 