November 2007
     

"Traveling Feet"

Show Notes for November 3, 2007:

"Travel Expert radio show host Stephanie Abrams takes Traveling Feet listeners on an East Coast adventure from North of Boston to historic Gettysburg, PA winding up in NYC for the Holidays!"

Topics Include:
Visiting the historic towns of Essex County, MA, in the region known as North of Boston

Learn about Rocky Neck, the oldest art colony in the US

Hear about the quaint but lively fishing villages of Gloucester, location of the film, The Perfect Storm, and home to the Gorton’s Fisherman.

Find out how the area helped move slaves from the south to the north through underground railway tunnels into homes, now restaurants, in Gloucester, MA.

Find out about Woodman’s of Essex, the restaurant where the first fried clam was prepared, Mad Martha’s Beach Café on Plum Island, and how you can have dinner for up to 4 people at the Lighthouse in Newburyport, MA!

Learn about the Brickhouse Inn and B&B that is adjacent to the historic Gettysburg Battlefield in Gettysburg, PA.

Find out about November and December delights in NYC including the new Dr. Seuss Broadway play, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, at the St. James Theatre in NYC, Cirque Du Soleil at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, and the Animal Exhibitions at the Manhattan Art and Antiques Center!

Guests Include:
Julie McConchie, Executive Director, North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau.
www.escapesnorth.com

Tessa Bardo, The Brickhouse Inn and B&B.
www.brickhouseinn.com

Trisha McMahon, Editor-in-Chief, IN-New York Magazine, Where NY, Guest Book NY.
www.IN-NewYork.com

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"Traveling Feet"

Show Notes for November 10, 2007:

"Travel Expert Stephanie Abrams takes Barefoot Beachcomber, David Isby and listeners from Galway, Ireland to the Outauais region of Canada to Saxony, Germany and back to the US traveling on Amtrak!"

Topics Include:
What to see and do in Galway City and Galway County, Ireland

What is offered for diners and hotel guests at the Forster Court Hotel in Galway, Ireland

Checking in with Africa Connect live on the telephone in Kenya discussing the 80 school children and the school they are working to save.

Experience driving on Germany’s Autobahn with Brian Greenberg from radio’s Greenberg News and see Germany’s Saxony region through his eyes.

Take a ride on Amtrak and learn about opportunities to travel on the The Adirondak from NY to Montreal on a vintage train!

Guests Include:
Podraic Whelan, Innkeeper and Proprietor of the family managed Forster Court Hotel
In Galway City, Ireland.
www.forstercourthotel.com

Jose Lafleur, Tourisme Outauais, Canada.
www.tourismeOutauais.ca

LuAnn Herring, co-founder, Africa Connect.
www.calvaryberkshires.org/Missions.htm

Brian Greenberg, Greenberg News.
www.greenbergcpa.com


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"Traveling Feet"

Show Notes for November 17, 2007:

"Take off with nationally syndicated radio show Travel Expert Stephanie Abrams on KLM to visit the world flying with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and its Northwest Airlines partner taking your Helen Rae Luggage aboard and connecting in NYC for a great meal!"

Topics Include:
New Helen RaeLuggage especially designed for the way you like to pack with adjustable shelf space.

Where to dine in NYC for every mood and flavor

Listeners get a taste of • Tribeca GrillMontrachetNobuNobu Next DoorNobu LondonNobu Fifty SevenCentricoMai HouseSan Francisco’s Rubicon owned by Drew Nieporent, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams and Francis Ford CoppolaMartha’s Vineyard’s Coach House • and Louisville Kentucky’s Proof On Main.

Insights into the creative process of the Myriad Restaurant Group starting with “Let’s Pretend” and Sybil Trent!

Updates on Galway City, Ireland include where to stay, where to dine, what to see and where to shop.

Shopping in Galway including info on the historic Claddagh shop where Richard Joyce is credited with creating and selling the hands-holding-crowned-heart design upon his return to Galway after his enslavement to a goldsmith in Algiers.

Update and inside scoop on wedding reception of Julianna Margulies from a travel point of view! Even People Magazine didn’t report that the wedding took place at 19-room Wheatleigh, the smallest hotel in the Leading Hotels of the World collection, where guests included Law & Order’s Mariska Hargatay, daughter of Jayne Mansfield and body-builder Mickey Hargatay who won the "Mr. Universe" competition in 1955.

Descriptions of the casually elegant Stoneover Farm B&B 8/10’s of a mile from the entrance to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.stonoverfarm.com

Guests Include:
Padraic Whelan

Kate Coughlin, CEO, Helen Rae Luggage.
www.helenraeluggage.com

Tracy Nieporent, Myriad Restaurant Group.
www.MyraidRestaurantGroup.com

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"Traveling Feet"

Show Notes for November 24, 2007:

"This Thanksgiving Weekend show takes listeners on a visit with the Boston Pops tour, a stop in Ireland at a hotel converted from an abbey, flying with a female private pilot, and a scoop on the 2007 Stephanie’s You’re the Tops lists!"

Topics Include:
The itinerary for the Boston Pops US tour with the Holiday Pops program.

A glimpse at Glenlo Abbey, Bushy Park, County Galway, Ireland and its Orient Express and Royal Mail train cars, now converted to a restaurant, on which Agatha Chritie’s, “Murder on the Orient Express,’ was filmed, Winston Churchill’s body was transported to Blenheim Palace, and Sir Lawrence Olivier once traveled! And an announcement on the air about Glenlo Abbey’s inclusion in the 2007 Stephanie’s You’re the Tops list!

Insights into why a female business executive chose to pilot a plane to go to meetings and breakaways!

Insights into the GEF Hotels special chateau properties including Chateau de Gilly in Gilly-les-Citeau in Burgundy, France and directions to archived interviews with general managers of Grandes Etapes Francaises chateaux properties.

Guests Include:
Dennis Alves, Director of Artistic Planning, Boston Pops.
www.bso.org

Brian Bourke, Director of Sales & Marketing, Glenlo Abbey, Bushy Park, County Galway, Ireland.
www.glenloabbey.ie

Laura Pogue, CEO, Strategic Marketing & Financial Resources, and Private Pilot member of Project Pilot.
www.projectpilot.org

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