You have two choices this summer: you can either beat the heat or play with it! After a few long months of cold weather and warm clothing, why would you want to escape the sunshine and nice weather? If you are wondering how to beat the winter blues this summer, come on down to Panama City Beach, Fla. fo
Kihei Beach,Maui Read Part One
After my weekend off I booked a flight from the Big Island to Maui… There was no security or screening here as everyone piled into a small nine-seat turbo-prop plane. It was a fun flight as you could see into the cockpit and the pilot would look back every once in a while to see how everyone was doing. The view from this plane was really neat as it flew a little lower and slower than commercial flights, especially when we came into Maui along the northern shore with many waterfalls and junglelike landscape. Once in Maui, I picked up my rental car and found my way to Kihei.
Kihei is a wonderful place. Beach access is easy no matter where you are staying and if you like to snorkel you can pretty much do it anywhere along the beach. The Maui Surf Shop offers rentals and they even organize snorkel excursions. 
Just a little south of Kihei is Wailea, where there are numerous luxury style hotels and fine dining restaurants. Some “Wow” factors here include the Four Seasons new serenity pool (for age 21 and up) with underwater music and bubble beds. They also pride themselves in having the largest collection of limited prints and sculptures in the state. The Grand Wailea has a wonderful pool area for children and a restaurant with a very unique atmosphere called Humuhumunukunukuapua… try saying that three times fast.
One of my favorite restaurants in Kihei/Wailea is Nick’s Fishmarket – wonderful service and if you go you have to order the Strawberry Panzini. This is an amazing display of food art that begins when the server comes out to your table with a silver tray of items. Firs,t she placed a plate in Read more…
Looking for something a little bit different and not just another hotel? Perhaps Tripadvisor’s list of the top 10 unusual vacation rentals will tempt you…
1. Unique Hilltop Windmill Rental, Odemira, Portugal
2. Hawaii Volcano Genuine Treehouse, Volcano, HI
3. My Sedona Place – Unique Dome Home, Sedona, AZ
4. SUITABLE DIGS…cool green lodgings, Santa Fe, NM
5. 1926 C&O Caboose, Natural Bridge, VA
6. Chalet Tropical Crazy Cottages, Las Galeras, Dominican Republic
7. The White Elephant Floating Inn, Boston, MA
8. ModernCottage, Garden Bay, Canada
9. Anna Maria Island Private Tropical Garden Home, Holmes Beach, FL
10. 18′x86′
This is the second part of a three part video series dedicated to the Paris neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. If you haven’t yet watched the first episode, you can check it out at Saint-Germain-des-Prés video tour article 1.
Video Tour of Montmartre, Paris, France – Part 2(5:18)
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is the area just south of the Seine and west of the Latin Quarter. Prior
For 45 years, Maryse Helal’s family has refereed the conversations among Cairo’s cultural elite at Estoril, their windowless downtown restaurant (12 Talaat Harb St.; 20-2574-3102). Here’s who you might see at lunch or dinner:
1. Max Rodenbeck: The Economist correspondent grew up here and wrote the love-letter historyCairo: The City Victorious.
2. Amr Waked: You might recognize the Egyptian actor from his role as a terrorist leader opposite George Clooney in Syriana. He was also seen on the streets of Cairo on the first day of January’s protests.
3. Yousry
