Traveling back to Granddad’s Greek home
The Washington Post

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Bob carden

People were watching us. Staring, actually. My 17-year-old daughter was uncomfortable, as was her mother, my modest and distinctly non-Greek wife. On the other hand, our 16-year-old son, who shares his father’s Zorba-like hamminess, was lapping up the attention. We...

Beer and beauty in Iceland
Boston Globe

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Bob carden

A few years ago, a friend went to Iceland to try to find a wife — or at least get a date. A men’s magazine had declared Iceland as having the most beautiful women in the world. So, after two...

Dublin Pub Crawl

for Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Bob carden

In Ireland for a week, and not looking for roots or relatives. I’m here for the whiskey, and beer. I am, however, accompanied by an intellectually curious and well bred woman who is my wife—along with our college aged kids....

Drinking single-malt Scotch, the rich bounty of Scotland
Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Bob carden

By the fourth dram, my glow had become a bit warmer and a light fog was settling in. A good single-malt Scotch can do that to you. The Highland Park distillery, on the far northern Scottish island of Orkney, was...

Learning to be a surfer dude in Carlsbad, Calif.
The Washington Post

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Bob carden

The monster wave approached. It had to be 20 or 30 feet. Undaunted, I paddled forward. Well, all right, maybe it’s more like 2 or 3 feet. But does size really matter? I jumped onto the board, turned into the...

James M. Scott’s ‘Target Tokyo’ tells Doolittle Raid story with new twists
Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Bob carden

SLIDESHOW James M. Scott's 'Target Tokyo' tells Doolittle Raid story with new twists Target Tokyo Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor By James M. Scott W.W. Norton. 672 pp. $35 Reviewed by Bob Carden Few World War...

The Impulsive Traveler: Gulf Shores, Ala., the Jersey Shore of the South?
The Washington Post

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Bob carden

Driving in from Pensacola Airport, we hit the beach road, passing the loud, legendary Flora-Bama Lounge as we entered Alabama. High-rise condos, framed against a glistening turquoise ocean, mixed with modest beach shacks. BMWs shared the road with rusting Ford...

Investment fraud isn’t relegated to Wall Street: Beware the Ponzi schemer next door
The Washington Post

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Bob carden

John McKenney’s a smart guy. A lawyer and tax expert, McKenney left Washington a few years ago and moved to Sarasota, Fla. He got a tan, took up yoga, started dating a well-heeled local woman. She brought McKenney into her...

Behavioral economics show that women tend to make better investments than men
The Washington Post

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Bob carden

By Robert Carden October 11, 2013 It’s happy hour at Hanaro in Bethesda, and I’m with my wife. We’re there about an hour, gobbling plates of half-price tuna rolls and washing them down with $3.50 Blue Moons. Have to hurry,...

California’s Central Coast
The Washington Post

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Bob carden

Remember that killer blonde in high school? Sure you do — every school had one. Tall, aloof, didn’t give you a second look — or a first. The less enlightened among us might have described her as “smokin’ hot to...

A storm in vacationland: HomeAway’s fees anger renters and owners
The Washington Post

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Bob carden

By Bob Carden June 3, 2016 HomeAway.com, the online vacation rental site, has riled customers with a change in practices that some say has made the getaways of their renters more expensive.At issue is a new “service fee” that HomeAway...

Drinking Scotland’s Bounty

Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Bob carden

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Posted on December 24, 2018 by Bob carden

Web pages survey the fact that was carried out on Russian ladies paid out dating sites produced nice thing about it which usually nearly 20-25% of Russian women have a youngster apart their initial marriage. Chances to generate partnered because...

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Posted on December 8, 2018 by Bob carden

International dating to Find Love You finally noticed that striking the golf clubs isn't actually the most efficient manner of meeting women. Now what?! Perfectly, chances are you'll merely hope you bundle into that perfect person, but that is not...