Irish Files: Inside Titanic Belfast

Launched in 2012, Titanic Belfast is a full-on interactive experience – from life size holograms and projections to fully reconstructed cabins with antiques and artifacts to a chronology of its construction, launch, maiden voyage, and tragic demise – via nine large galleries…

Onboard Tallink Silja – A Swedish Christmas Show

Tallink Silja, one of the largest cruise lines specializing in the Nordics and Baltics (Sweden, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia) invited several of its business partners for a Julbord (Christmas smörgåsbord) onboard its Silja Serenade cruise ship and an exclusive show with special guest artist, Danny Saucedo…

Event Season: From Croatia and Norway to Italy and Czech Republic

It’s that time of the year when I start looking forward to possible destinations and cultural themes to explore in 2016. Autumn and winter is also the season when there are a lot more local media events for travel industry insiders, bloggers, and journalists with destination marketing organizations (DMOs) throwing mingles to explore their cultures through food, art, and other traditions…

In search of Bologna’s best gelato

Even though I spent a solid week immersed in Bologna’s culinary history – from trying my hand at making tortellini from scratch at a traditional cooking school to exploring the surrounding Emilia Romagna region’s gastronomy and its local food producers, coming up with a superlative list of the “best gelato shops in Bologna” all by myself seemed disingenuous to me…