I'm in Honolulu and scheduled to fly back to Seattle this afternoon.
The news about the incident at Glasgow Airport is not good. Especially since it happened one day after the car bombing in London's nightclub district.
I'm not changing my travel plans this summer.
Terrorism is all about scaring people. I'm not scared.
But fortunately, I have no plans to fly until the end of September, when I'm off to Montreal.
Flying in the summer sucks, even when the skies are supposedly friendly.
I'm scheduled to fly to London, Manchester and Frankfurt in October.
I'm not changing my plans.
Travel is part of my life. It's part of who I am.
A sign in Honolulu. Photo by Sue Frause.
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904). Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James,
1867. Oil on fabric; 50.2 x 42.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift
of Lewis C. Williams 1982.256. © The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Listel Hotel in Vancouver, BC has an artistic package featuring Vancouver Art Gallery’s Monet to Dali: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Monet to Dalí exhibit represents the most comprehensive showing of European painting and sculpture in Vancouver in more than half a century. Touted as Vancouver’s most art-full hotel, it's only a five minute walk on Robson to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The Listel's Surreal Impressions package includes:
• Two express entry tickets to the exhibit (you walk right past the crowds)
• An exhibit catalogue of the show
• A room on the hotel’s Gallery Floors, where each room is an individual gallery featuring original or limited edition work from more than 35 different artists
• A 15% discount at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s gift shop
The package is priced at $289.00 CDN (+ applicable taxes) per room based on double occupancy. It's available until Sept. 16, 2007. Reservations may be made by calling 800.663.5491 or e-mailing reservations@thelistelhotel.com.
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art is drawn from the superb collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Vancouver Art Gallery's exhibition consists of more than 80 paintings, drawings and sculpture that demonstrate key examples from the European modernist movement. Organized into four groupings, it covers a century of art making from 1864 to 1964 and showcases important work by the major Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, early modern sculptors and avant garde artists interested in Dadaism, Cubism and Surrealism. Most notably, the exhibition includes key works by Manet, Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Dalí and other renowned artists. Together, the works in this stellar collection illuminate the breadth of creativity in one of the most extraordinary epochs in the history of Western art. The show is at the Vancouver Art Gallery until September 16, 2007.
The more I travel the more I know what I want in a hotel room.
Here are some basic amenities that hotels should consider:
Free Internet (preferably WiFi)
Morning newspaper delivered to door
Robe
Iron with a full-size ironing board
Hairdryer
Complimentary bottled water
Wake-up calls on time
A good bed!
Hotel swimming pool. Photo by Sue Frause.
