Travels With Carole

Come along with me and share the excitement as I explore the world researching freelance articles. These blog posts offer short chunks of travel that you can digest quickly as well as plenty of photos so you get the picture. You'll have some fun, make discoveries, and pick up great ideas and information for your own vacations. Think of me as your canary in the coal mine. For even more travel inspiration, visit my BERKELEY AND BEYOND website at http://www.berkeleyandbeyond.com.

March 11, 2015

A memorable stay in the Blue Moon Hotel in NYC; hotel review

A memorable stay in the Blue Moon Hotel in NYC

As our cab drove from the airport into NYC, the sun reflected just so in the glass side of a tall building as to register golden—bringing to mind the promise to immigrants of streets paved with gold. This seemed a prescient sight, since we were about to be dropped off on the Lower East Side at a restored eight-story brick tenement building that opened in 2006 as the Blue Moon Hotel.

Once a densely populated slum, this cutting edge, hip neighborhood . . . Read more . . .