After 18 months of hard borders, hotel quarantine and two million expired passports, Australia’s international travel ban will lift in November for the vaccinated. Existing caps on international arrivals will also be lifted, in a move that allows the 44,000 stranded Australians to return home. However both measures will be […]
Off The Menu: ‘Tip the Kitchen’ boosts earnings, morale of cooks and dishwashers
The disparity between what servers and kitchen workers earn has long been a source of friction in the restaurant world. With waitstaff getting tips that substantially supplement their earnings, back of the house workers, who are often prohibited from sharing in those tips, end up making a lot less than […]
Holiday-Travel Bookings Are Growing Tight, Driving Up Prices
A rush of people booking holiday travel is driving up prices and lowering inventory, with advisers recommending Americans who have been holding out to make plans soon. Some travel advisers say they started receiving holiday inquiries months ago, as people eager to take destination vacations near year’s end booked trips […]
A safe vacation but it required mounds of paperwork | Quigley
Along with most of my family, I got my booster shot last month. Neither the FDA nor the CDC had authorized it yet, but we’d been reading reports from Israel and other countries and knew it would do no harm. We planned to take a cruise, one that had been […]
Just Back from a Majestic Princess Cruise to Alaska: Hits and Misses
(4 p.m. EDT) — There’s a certain amount of normalcy, even in these COVID-times, in seeing a familiar sight. For me, that’s been the presence of Princess Cruises’ Majestic Princess in port in Alaska. Originally launched for the Chinese cruise market out of Shanghai, then shuttled to Australia and New […]
Canning and jarring food is having a renaissance in CT
Every time I go to buy farm produce, I worry that this could be it. At this time of year, local bounty can end abruptly. Farmers have already dodged the drowning rain and high wind of two tropical storms. It’s only a matter of time til the first frost; then […]