Another gem of a shop I ran into today was Universe on a T-Shirt, a small workshop space on Bloemdwarsstraat, off the busy street of Rozengracht. They primarily sell t-shirt and sweatshirts on which they hand print their sometimes elaborate…
Continue Reading →The best shops in Amsterdam seem to be the ones I stumble in to accidentally. It seems like most of the popular shops readers have told me to go to so far overall are pretty lack-luster and over hyped. For…
Continue Reading →Yamazato is a traditional Japanese restaurant tucked on the ground floor of Amsterdam's Hotel Okura. Zagat readers gave their nod to the restaurant as being one of the best Japanese restaurants in the whole of Europe-- and being the Asian…
Continue Reading →I touched down in Amsterdam late Saturday afternoon, welcomed by torrential downpours and incredibly overcast skies-- just my luck! I used some of the evening catching up on emails in my hotel downtown before heading out to dinner at a…
Continue Reading →I'm sure many (if not all of you) have seen those pay-per-use charging stations at airports recently. Doesn't that make you mad-- or at the very least puzzled-- that airports are trying to charge you to juice up your electronic…
Continue Reading →A late arrival in London last evening left me at myhotel (no pun intended) famished. I stumbled down the road to a gem of a restaurant called Patara. With locations in South Kensington, Knightsbridge, Oxford Circus and Soho, the self-proclaimed…
Continue Reading →I'm headed to London tomorrow for the week-- Although I anticipate having little free time, as usual if you have a tip for me to check out a shop, restaurant, club, art gallery or run an agency of some type…
Continue Reading →Executive Chef Michael Gilligan is no stranger to the kitchen-- we were glad (and very pleased) to try his newest creation called Atrio, a gem of a restaurant tucked inside the Conrad Hotel in Miami during our trip to the…
Continue Reading →If you go to one restaurant in Miami, make sure it's Wish. Wish is in The Hotel in South Beach, and it impressed Josh and I in a way restaurants rarely do. The atmosphere had that classy, yet South Beach…
Continue Reading →Beloved JoshSpear.com readers... you may or may not have noticed that I 'went dark like Jack Bauer' on the blogging front for the last week or so, but I am back and excited to kick off what promises to be…
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