Recently returned from a wonderful week in Italy and Switzerland, where I spent a lot of time traveling on trains and tasted soda made out of milk (among many other things). Hopefully sometime soon I’ll have time to be a little more descriptive and post pictures, but for now keep following me on Gadling.
Tags: Italy, photo of the week, venice
Two months ago I spent a blissful few days enjoying the San Francisco sunshine with two of my besties. Well, mostly blissfull, anyway… there was a flat tire on our bike trip across the Golden Gate Bridge and a flight delay coming home. But other than that, a resounding success. Check out my review of the anime-themed hotel we stayed in, Hotel Tomo, on Gadling. More pictures forthcoming as soon as I catch up on this blog!
Tags: california, park, photo of the week, san francisco, skyline
I’m off to Italy today for a breeze through Rome, Venice and Milan. Let the gelato, pizza, pasta and wine consumption begin! See you in a week.
Tags: food, Italy, photo of the week, rome
Spring is almost here and I seem to have left my brain on the West Coast. Today I was reminiscing about a trip to Seattle where I took in an almost abnormally beautiful day from Gasworks Park with some friends. We ate burritos, flew kites, and watched sailboats glide by. If that isn’t a perfect escape, I don’t know what is.
Tags: kites, photo of the week, seattle, washington
Pictured above are three of my best friends for life: Austin, Ryan and Jesse. They happen to be in a band called Delay that is playing in Baltimore on Tuesday at the Curious Palace along with another band full of my friends, Tin Armor. This picture was taken at the Airport Diner in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. It was my first introduction to scrapple–a mushy wedge of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour–and it didn’t go very well.
Tags: diners, kutztown, pennsylvania, photo of the week
Guess what, readers? I am now the guide for Baltimore’s site on About.com. Head to baltimore.about.com for all the latest and to see my updates, which will be happening much more frequently than here. I am also still blogging on Gadling and keeping up with my Twitter, so follow me there, too!
This week I’m putting up two pictures from a recent trip to Luray Caverns in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a site that is just as cool and mysterious at the age of 26 as it was at the age of six when my parents took me there on vacation. I suppose if I was 96 I would probably feel the same way (if I can still get up and down the stairs, that is).
Tags: cavern, photo of the week, virginia
Apparently, thieves have been stealing lovers’ padlocks off Cologne’s Hohenzollern Bridge and selling them for scrap value. The tradition for the locks has it that amorous couples scrawl their initials or messages on the locks, affix them to the bridge, and then toss the key into the river below. For more images, see this Gadling gallery.
Tags: bridge, cologne, germany, lovers padlocks, photo of the week
While winding through the country roads near Shenandoah Valley National Park, I realized John Denver really knew what he was singing about when he called the Blue Ridge Mountains “almost heaven.”
We traveled from roadside stand to roadside stand for the greater portion of the day. Quilts, moccasins, and antiques were scooped up like you wouldn’t believe. Some day when I get a real house, I’m going to rent a U-Haul and fill it up with goodies from Virginia. In the meantime, I couldn’t beat fresh honey, apple cider, and peaches.
Is this the place I belong, like John Denver sang? I’m not so sure about that. But I am sure that there are only a few places on Earth I’d rather go to sit back and relax.
Tags: antiques, markets, photo blog, roadside stands, shenandoah valley, virginia
Pennants hanging on the wall of the Big Meadows Lodge in Shenandoah Valley National Park.
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Hi, my name is Libby Zay. I'm a Baltimore-based writer who uses this blog as an outlet to dish on food, travel, and whatever else I feel necessary. For more frequent updates, follow me on