Seattle, Part I

 Here I am in the sitting area on our floor of Seattle’s Best Western Pioneer Square hotel last week, the great old staircase just behind me. The area right around it is a bit rough…

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A Barcelona Hotel . . . Curious?

I don’t know how you search out hotels in new cities you’re visiting, but I’ve been very lucky over the past few years and I thought perhaps you’d like to compare notes. Up until a…

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Travel Budget — Hotels, Part II

As I’m making reservations, planning connections, booking rooms, and doing all the lovely research for our next trip, I thought that before I tell you where we’re going, I’ll show-and-tell three more budget hotels we’ve…

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Affordable Europe? Small Budget Hotels We’ve Liked

I see that this page has been attracting a surprising number of clicks lately, which really means that I must update. I suspect you’ll find that much of this information is not as relevant as…

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