ny_lon@living1, Author at Just Go Places Culinary and Cultural Travel Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:57:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Two Newport Mansion Tours To Take With Kids: Rough Point Mansion and The Breakers https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/newport-mansion-tours/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:04:48 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12697 To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the super rich are different from you and me — they keep camels in the conservatory and have playhouses for their children that are bigger than the average American home. There really were live camels kept at the Doris Duke house, Rough Point in Newport Rhode Island.  Born as the...

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]]> Photo Gallery: A Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Through Big Sur https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/pacific-coast-highway-road-trip/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:04:25 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12846 The famed landscape of Big Sur in California is nearly vertical with the Santa Lucia mountains behind you and the rocky cliffs to the sea in front of you. On our Pacific Coast Highway road trip through Big Sur this summer, both natural and man-made marvels were spread out before us.  The PCH is merely...

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]]> Kooky But Not Very Spooky: The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-winchester-mystery-house-in-san-jose/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-winchester-mystery-house-in-san-jose/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:07:17 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12817 Would you live with construction workers in your house for 24 hours/7 days a week for 38 years?  It would be enough to drive anyone mad.  Supposedly that is what Sarah Winchester did when she built the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California at the turn of the 20th century.  No one knows why...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-winchester-mystery-house-in-san-jose/feed/ 0 Contemporary Cool at the Funk Zone in Santa Barbara https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/funk-zone-in-santa-barbara/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/funk-zone-in-santa-barbara/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:43:29 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12780 Santa Barbara prides itself on being the California Riviera (so much so that its trademarked the slogan).  A Riviera anywhere in the world conjures up images of beachside affluence and glamour.  When you think of contemporary cool, you think of Brooklyn.  What do you get when you mix the Riviera and Brooklyn?  Something that is...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/funk-zone-in-santa-barbara/feed/ 1 Getting the Most Value From City Pass for a 3 Day Visit to New York City https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/city-pass-for-a-3-day-visit-to-new-york-city/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/city-pass-for-a-3-day-visit-to-new-york-city/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:13:14 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12731 Although my children have been going to New York City every year for the last 9 years, we have only just completed visited all of the major tourist attractions in Manhattan.  Why?  The crowds, the lines and the expense.  I can only cope with a couple of sightseeing options per trip  before we go do...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/city-pass-for-a-3-day-visit-to-new-york-city/feed/ 0 Visiting the California Redwoods at Muir Woods With Kids https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/california-redwoods-at-muir-woods-with-kids/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/california-redwoods-at-muir-woods-with-kids/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:04:34 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12706 The mind boggles when you think about how old the California redwoods are.  When some of these trees in Muir Woods were saplings 900 years ago, the world would have been a vastly unrecognisable place.  To put things in perspective, in 1144 AD, the French and Germans were off on a doomed Second Crusade.  In...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/five-best-chateaux-in-the-loire-valley/feed/ 0 In Photos: The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/japanese-tea-garden-in-golden-gate-park/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/japanese-tea-garden-in-golden-gate-park/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:07:12 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12627 Although it is only September, the mild chill of autumn is in the air in London. August in San Francisco felt the same way. Coming from a heat wave on the East Coast, we felt the nippy weather keenly.  When we visited the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, the leaves were changing color....

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/japanese-tea-garden-in-golden-gate-park/feed/ 1 The Garden of Reflection: A Local 9/11 Memorial For A National Tragedy https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-garden-of-reflection-9-11-memorial/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-garden-of-reflection-9-11-memorial/#respond Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:25:26 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12572 Although everyone associates New York City with the tragic events of 9/11, that day affected other people near and far.  There are  the obvious consequences such as the tightening of airline security and the wars to eradicate the Taliban. Less known is the fact that some of the victims came from 2 hours away where...

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]]> https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/the-garden-of-reflection-9-11-memorial/feed/ 0 Why You Should Take A Family Holiday in Sicily with Massimo Villas https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/family-holiday-sicily-massimo-villas/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/family-holiday-sicily-massimo-villas/#respond Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:31:56 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12380 Arriving at night into the airport at Palermo, we did not see the mountains of Sicily which came to characterise our stay in the country.  Even in the dark we could tell this country was full of mountains because we soon found ourselves driving into and out of tunnels hewn through the stone.  From Cefalu,...

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