SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: While walking down Broadway in Greenwich Village we passed by an interesting small shop that emitted a sweet fragrance of vanilla and baked goods. We had to investigate. They advertised the World's Best Cream Puff here. Interesting and oh how convenient. Never having been inside a specialty cream puff place we entered and ordered a few. They also had coffee, juices, mochi ice cream, some fondants and other stuff. The way they served the simple cream puff was somewhat of a production. The server took a cream puff shell, then placed it under the filling device, pulled down the handle, the device poked a hole inside the cream puff and filled it. Some powdered sugar was sprinkled on top, the puffs were placed in paper and we had our treat. You can choose multiple flavors (vanilla custard, chocolate, coffee, pumpkin, green tea, earl grey tea, strawberry and more). We just had the classic cream filling described on their site as : "Our original recipe custard, discovered in Osaka, Japan and now made available around the world. Our Vanilla custard is made with all natural ingredients and is abundant with the highest quality, imported vanilla beans grains available".

Rate and Review : Beard Papa's in New York City - My First Visit To A Cream Puff Specialty Store

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: After a nice lunch near Union Square last week we wanted to complete with an even nicer cup of coffee. We did not research ahead of time at all and were scrounging around to find a good recommendation. We found a tourist map provided by our hotel and looked at the restaurants that have the word coffee in their name. I know! This is usually not the best way to find a good cup of joe. A place called "Joe The Art of Coffee" caught our attention. It was nearby and the name itself suckered us in. In the worst case, we thought, we'd be out a few bucks ... It actually proved to be great.

Rate and Review : Excellent Cup of Coffee at Joe The Art of Coffee Near Union Square, Manhattan, NYC

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: The building now housing Tapa Meze Bar and Grill, a relative newcomer on the Manhattan Beach dining scene, housed several other restaurants in the recent past. It is located just West of the intersections of Manhattan Beach and Sepulveda Boulevards with an updated exterior and a sign announcing Modern Mediterranean Cuisine. We examined their menu online and noted that they have interesting lunch specials available. That was enough to decide to visit it this past week. Small parking lot is available behind the restaurant and is accessible from either Manhattan Beach Boulevard or from Oak Avenue.

Rate and Review : Lunch at the Tapa Meze Bar and Grill in Manhattan Beach, California

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Cape Agulhas, the southern most point of the African continent, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans join forces in creating one of the most feared points on early explorers' sea travels, still proves to be a worthwhile entrapment to the modern explorer's sense of adventure.

The dangers of the region's waters has resulted in sailors dubbing the region the "Cape of Storms." Not surprising, since the Cape's waters and fiery winds took their toll on many a ship seeking to round the continent's tip on route to the East.

Rate and Review : Agulhas Is The Southern Most Point Of The African Continent

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Artist Manuel Reyes aspires to exhibit his work in art galleries in Oaxaca and Mexico City. Give him that exposure over the next couple of years, and there's little doubt his genius will be known in New York, Chicago, and further abroad. American, Canadian and European art collectors are already tapping their Mexican networks to figure out how to make their way to his modest home and workshop in the village of Yanhuitlan, an hour and a half outside of the city of Oaxaca, to marvel at his artistry … and buy it up.

Reyes was born in Mexico City (d.o.b. 20/12/72) to Oaxacan parents. He balks at any suggestion that he is not pure Oaxacan: "My parents are from the Mixteca Alta, right in this region of the state, and I've always considered myself a Oaxacan. That's my heritage, my birthright. I just happen to have been born out of state. While I've had training from some of the grand masters of Mexican art, I've developed a large part of my artistic style from watching and speaking to local artists right here in the Mixteca."

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Skiing was not something that I did a lot of growing up in the big city. Not too many mountains lined the horizon outside my back porch, or front porch for that matter. Our skiing experienced was usually limited too a few small mountains in upstate New Hampshire, or if we really wanted a treat, we would make the two plus hour drive to Maine or better yet Vermont.

I began flirting with the idea to try my hand at skiing out west about two years ago, when a childhood friend went out there for business and was amazed to find a different kind of experience. The snow seemed more 'whiter' as he put it and much more fluffy (yes, our skiing vernacular could turn heads!) The area of Colorado that he traveled too was Crested Butte, right along the East River Valley; in the county of Gunnison.

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Fall is one of the most beautiful seasons in Ontario when forests light up in hues of yellow, orange and red. It's the perfect time for drives in the countryside, to visit small villages, check out farmer's markets, attend country fairs. We've had a long hot summer this year, even as I write this we are expecting temperatures 10 degrees Celsius above average. As a result the fall colour season is a little delayed, but that did not change the fact that it was time for a country driving tour.

During the Servas conference in Vancouver I made a great connection, I met a fellow Ontarian, a lady in her 50s by the name of Julie who lives north of Peterborough in Ontario's Lake Country. And as is the Servas tradition, she generously offered her hospitality and invited me to come up and visit her on Buckhorn Lake. I left on Saturday at around 4 pm and although I got lost a couple of times, barely two hours later I arrived at her beautiful house on Buckhorn Lake.

Rate and Review : Hello from the Kawarthas - Early Fall Colours, Scarecrows & Frogmen

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Enrique Flores is one of the most prolific Mexican artists of his generation. Of course having been mentored by the late great master of contemporary Mexican art, Rodolfo Morales, hasn't hurt; nor has the fact that two of Oaxaca's most prominent art galleries, Indigo and Arte de Oaxaca, were his patrons for many years. But there's no substitute for hard work, talent, and vision, each characterizing Flores.

Flores has been exhibiting his work throughout Mexico and the United States since 1985. By the early 1990's he began receiving global recognition as a significant force on the Latin American art scene, with exhibits in Japan in 1992, and Holland the following year. Heineken commissioned him to paint two murals for a US promotional campaign aimed at attracting Mexican-American consumers. His stylizing of indigenous Mexican women, as well as the distinctiveness of his work were brought to the attention of art aficionados in the 1994 publication, Arte y Alma de Oaxaca (Art and Soul of Oaxaca), supported by the Fine Art Gallery of New York; and in the 1998 landmark book, Imagenes y Colores de Oaxaca (Images and Colors of Oaxaca). He illustrated a well-received children's book, published in both Spanish and English by The Children's Press, Pájaros de la Cosecha (Birds of the Harvest).

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: Enjoying great art? Culinary delights at a beer garden? Shopping? Basking in greenery? Munich has everything a visitor could want for a perfect stay: an outstanding infrastructure, with over 46.000 hotel beds in all categories, 5000 restaurants and bars, good travel connections, excellent local public transportation, and also famous orchestras, spectacular museums and collections, castles and churches, expansive parks and gardens, popular festivals and attractive opportunities for shopping; indeed, it takes a will not to find the perfect place to either eat, go out, or celebrate.

The favourite activities of all tourists, taking in culture and shopping, can be wonderfully combined in Munich as in hardly any other city. And on the subject of revelry, Oktoberfest at the Wies'n is a party that has become inseparably linked to the image of the city. But Munich is also lively at other times: Mardi Gras, the "strong beer" season, markets, film festivals, opera festivals, Christopher Street Day, or the Tollwood Festival, to name but a few.

SeeTheGlobe.com Travel Article :: The district of Amberg-Sulzbach, located between Nuremburg, Bayreuth and Regensburg, lies at the heart of Bavaria. Tranquillity and activity, innovation and tradition, ancient and modern - these are contrasts, which at first glance don’t go together and yet in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach they are in direct contact.

The appeal of the countryside lies in the gently undulating line of hills and touches both the senses and the soul. It is a countryside where you can let your dreams carry you away, romantic and full of idyllic spots for those seeking peace, relaxation and inspiration. To the east the foothills of the Upper Palatinate forest, to the south and west the Jura landscape, the remainder of an ocean long-disappeared, defines the appearance. Like blue ribbons the rivers Vils and Lauterach meander through the region, bypassing rugged Jura rocks, picturesque villages and fortresses and castles of former significance. Villages and towns are marked by thousands of years of history, by prosperity, wealth, downfall and renewal. The long history of settlement in our homeland is confirmed by finds from the Stone Age, Celtic defences and remains of a church from Carolingian times - a sensational find for archaeologists.