Above, old warehouse buildings still hover above the industrial landscape of Griffintown, a former industrial neighborhood undergoing revitalization close to downtown Montreal. By Ron Bernthal About 100 years ago a Montreal neighborhood called Griffintown was the center of the … Continue reading
Review by Ron Bernthal During the past few years JetBlue has been rolling out new coach seats, galley relocations and the spacious “Even More Space” seats on all of its 162-passenger A320 aircraft, of which there are 130. All of … Continue reading
By Ron Bernthal Barcelona is a Mediterranean city, a busy shipping, fishing and ferry port with numerous beaches and pleasure boat marinas, but there are few hotels in the city as close to the sea as the Accor Pullman Barcelona … Continue reading
Review by Ron Bernthal Opened in 2015, the new Husafell Hotel, located in West Iceland’s sparsely settled interior, about 90 minutes from Reykjavik, is located just 20 minutes from Langjokull glacier on the edge of Iceland’s glaciel wildlands. The … Continue reading
REVIEW BY RON BERNTHAL In 2014 more than one million people visited Iceland, three times the country’s population, and figures were expected to increase by another 76% in 2015. Needless to say, this large increase in business and leisure travel … Continue reading
(Hotel photos courtesy Design Hotels™ ) 101 Hotel, Reykjavik www.101hotel.is My flight from the U.S. landed in Iceland at 6:00 am local time. I gathered my belongings, walked quickly to the passport windows, fully staffed and with no lines, and … Continue reading
Fogo Island Journal: At the edge of a continent, a melding of design and nature “By January it had always been winter.” ― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News By Ron Bernthal On brisk winter mornings guests at the Fogo Island … Continue reading
By Ron Bernthal The United Nations has listed Norway as the number one country on the organization’s 2015 Human Development Report. Combining life expectancy, education and income per capita, Norway ranks first in the world for the 12th … Continue reading
The Thief Oslo By Ron Bernthal Although most visitors to The Thief , in the Oslo neighborhood of Tjuvholmen (tchuv-holmen), arrive by taxi, others can travel by bus, tram or ferry and walk ten minutes along the Aker Brygge waterfront, … Continue reading
While celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Shinkansen (Bullet Train) on October 1, the Japan National Tourism Organization has confirmed that the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen service will open on March 14, 2015. The Japan National Tourism Organization has launched … Continue reading