Driving into Cork, I noticed an abundance of high school students. And then, I realized I’m getting older. These are college students attending the University College Cork, home to around 7,000 students. Cork’s youth is apparent, even if a little more immature. You don’t sense age in this city, just pure youth and innocence. A good day in Cork begins at the Old English Market, with no connection to the wood cleaner brand. I am delighted to find not bottles of wood polish but rather stall after stall of random goods. T-shirts and meats, delicious fruit tarts and vegetables, the market is Continue Reading
The Annoying People You Meet in The Airport
My bag took a tumble down the escalator as I made my way to airport security. Before being intercepted by a man, I watched in horror that I could possible take down someone before his or her flight. I could just read the headlines, “Girl loses control of suitcase, injures 1”. The scene at the airport, especially around this time of the year, is usually one of complete and utter chaos. You have your novice fliers, those who are just headed to grandma’s house, their one trip of the year. Then you have your families, clustered together with a mom just hoping all will go smoothly with the three Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of December 12, 2011
After another week flies by, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read each submission, comment, post a link to the article on Twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and place a link to the post on my Facebook page. The following week I select my five favorite submissions to be featured here and the stumbling begins again into the next week. This segment is intended to help travel writers and bloggers receive more attention for their work. Just a Continue Reading
The Tivoli Gardens of Copenhagen Wish You Were Here
A few screams fill the cool night air of Copenhagen. My first time in the city, I was skeptical of its amusement park at the center. The Tivoli Gardens fill Copenhagen’s heart on more levels than one. You come here to be entertained, but strangely not in a kitschy, amusement park sense. The Tivoli Gardens have class. As I walk around Tivoli Lake, I take in what I believe to be this 8-hectare garden’s best attribute, its lights. While the space is made up of rides, restaurants, concerts and even parades on occasion, it is the soft glow of the Tivoli’s lights that make it seem the work of Continue Reading
Checking Out the Supermarkets of the World
I stood with two travel companions in a German supermarket. The food selection was decidedly German. I wish we had a whole section for pretzels in the U.S. When it came time to get in line, I placed my basket on the moving conveyor belt as a very German looking woman sized me up and down. As she started scanning each item, she threw them down the line. I just stood there, motionless, unable to assess the cultural differences of this situation. A giant line was forming and I was still frozen in a German supermarket. One of my friends quickly started to bag the items, laughing at me for just Continue Reading
Suzy Stumbles Over Travel: Week of December 5, 2011
From a very snowy Denver, I bring you this week’s Suzy Stumbles Over Travel. In case you are new to this site, each week I ask writers and readers to submit their favorite travel posts of the week. I read EVERY SUBMISSION, comment, tweet the article on twitter, stumble the piece using Stumbleupon and place a link to the post on my Facebook page. The following week, I select my five favorites to be featured here and the stumbling begins into the next week. Just a few things to keep in mind, please only submit one link per person each week.Your submission should be travel-related. You have Continue Reading
Win $500 in Accommodations with Enrout
While I don’t normally write specific posts on contests, as there are so many, Enrout was nice enough to exchange good deeds and support this site as well. It must be the spirit of the season. Enrout is a new search engine for alternative lodging. And as I don’t promote every contest on this site, I found Enrout to be beneficial for average Joes and Janes in terms of what types of accommodations they offer for reasonable rates. The goal of the site is to immerse the traveler into local lifestyles. I often say how I enjoy renting apartments when I travel as you do get a different sense of a Continue Reading