iceland pt 3

Some randomness shot around the countryside… aren’t they gorgeous?

iceland pt 2

The Golden Circle,  this is a driving tour that consists of stopping in three main places… Pingvellir, where the Icelandic Government first convened, it is the symbolic heart of this nation. It also sits directly on top of the continental rift which continues to separate about 8mm per year.  The entire plain is riven with […]

iceland pt 1

The main reason why Mr Weiss and I found ourselves in Iceland after our QM2 voyage was well we had to find a way back to NYC and it just so happens Iceland Air is running some very cheap tickets in and out of Iceland.  We paid $365.00 pp to fly Heathrow-Reykjavik-JFK, a pretty great […]

a quiet weekend

Yes it was and thank god too. Last weekend, we arrived back from Iceland late on Friday night,  then legged it upstate the following day, went snowboarding and being not as well rested as I should have been I totally wiped out off the lift (yes embarrassing!!), twisted my ankle, which resulted in the limp […]

galley tour QM2

Being a bit of a food nut and always interested in the behind the scenes of any type of operation we took a galley tour of one of the 8 kitchens on board… this is where hungry stomachs are fed and fed and fed…. a sample menu from the restaurant will give you the general […]

QM2 pics

Some randomness…. leaving New York from Red Hook, Brooklyn Cruising under the Verrazano Bridge with a whopping 13 feet to spare.. the belly of the beast.. hot tubbing it mid Atlantic in JANUARY! a big kiss to you Gulf Stream… deck chairs. Coffee on our patio. This is not the Titanic!! The Lookout, one deck […]

glamming and hamming it up

Part of the experience on board the QM2 was dressing for dinner.  On our seven night voyage there was 4 formal black tie events, two semi formal and one elegant casual.  The Catskill Kiwi when not looking like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards can scrub up quite well and is somewhat of a […]

I’m baaaaacck!

Howdi.  Did you miss me? Oh go on, admit it, you did, didn’t you, even just a tiny bit??  Anyway I’m stateside after a truly spectacular trip extravaganza, which to refresh you alls memory started with a 7 day cruise from Red Hook, Brooklyn, on board the Queen Mary 2 to Southampton, UK.  The QM2 […]

gone fishing…

What? okay not exactly but if I said by the time you read this I will be steaming out of New York’s harbor on-board the Queen Mary 2!  Would  your jaws be on the floor? I know mine is.  We are going for a special birthday celebration with another couple who managed to get an […]

hello twenty ten, bye bye oh nine

To kick off the end of the year and usher in the new one, Mr Weiss and I dusted off our snowboards (actually we picked them up from the shop where they had been waxed, sharped and shined! woo hoo) and headed for the hills.  Time to get back on the horse, loosen up the […]