Disney on a dime: Yes, Mouseketeers, you can do it
May 18, 2009 ·
Disney World has been on our kids’ minds this year, but it wasn’t in our family budget. What’s a parent to do? Approach a trip to the Magic Kingdom and the rest of the sprawling Walt Disney World Resort with the same mind-set as the old Midas muffler commercials: I’m not gonna pay a lot [...]
St. Louis on the cheap: from the Arch to the zoo
March 26, 2009 ·
The French who founded this city in 1764 left instructions for having a good time. The Germans brought the beer, built the brick mansions and got things organized. Henry Shaw, inspired by the gardens of his native England, created a magnificent botanical garden. The Italians gave us The Hill neighborhood of tidy working-class homes and [...]
Dining in the dark: Cool novelty or tacky gimmick?
March 13, 2009 ·
I hadn’t heard about restaurants in which you dine in the dark until my colleague Laura told me about it. The trend started in 1998 in Switzerland at Zurich’s Blindekuh restaurant, reports Lonely Planet. It spread in 2004 to France at a bistro in Paris’s 4th-arrondissement called Dans le Noir. The idea is to allow [...]
Paris doesn’t have to be expensive
October 27, 2008 ·
Paris may be the most visited city in the world, yet it’s also one of the most expensive. “This city is worth the price,” says veteran tourist Alex Wadkin, 71, a retiree from Dublin, Ireland, sipping a $6 cup of coffee on the Champs-Elysees. “If you avoid expensive neighborhoods — like this one — you’ll [...]
