Courses and Travel

Authentic Ireland Trip Offers Scenery And Serenity

Lodging in Limerick: No. 1 Perry Square is an historic, botique option (Photo courtesy Ireland’s Blue Book)

St. Patrick, by legend, drove the snakes from Ireland, but St. Patrick’s Day drives American tourists to the Emerald Isle.... Read more »

Palo Alto’s Uplifting Baylands Renovation

Jay Stuller

After nearly six years of starts, stops, delays and typical regulatory bureaucracy around environmentally sensitive land, the transformation of the... Read more »

Innisbrook Resort Keeps Rolling Along, With Momentum

Tom Bedell

[Apr. 28, 2021–With the PGA Tour Valspar Championship rolling into Palm Harbor, Florida this weekend, thought I’d roll out this... Read more »

Local Music Adds Flavor to International Travel

Looking over Lisbon: the new Sky Bar of Tivoli Avenida Liberdade

Michael Patrick Shiels

More than a snapshot or a forkful of food, traditional local music provokes an authentic “sense of place” at travel... Read more »

There’s a lot of golf in Bradenton & Sarasota: Here’s a guide to some of it.

Herb Gould

I’m a bigger fan of Florida golf weather than Florida golf. I like to hit the ball low; they like... Read more »

Where Can You Go and What Will You Do This Year?

Grand Haven's Washington Street Inn, circa 1902, provides is a quaint, romantic rest

Michael Patrick Shiels

It’s a destination dilemma. Where could you go? And, realistically depending on your time and budget…where can you go? Three-out-of-four Michiganders are planning to... Read more »