- What is it like to travel with author and historian Alison Weir? What is it like to travel with author and historian Alison Weir? Here is a glimpse–melding history, art and unbelievable research. From Alison: ” These full-length, stained-glass figures if Henry VII and Elizabeth of York appear in the east window of the chancel of St Nicholas’s Church, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, which dates from c.1537-40. Beneath the Queen […]
- The 2013 A-List of Travel Agents | Travel & Leisure Jean Newman Glock was honored to be listed as one of the top travel agents by Travel and Leisure Magazine in the 2013 A-List. As the magazine quotes, “Glock has insider clout, and maintains a little black book of door-opening contacts…”
- Jean In The News : An Overview As Jean Newman Glock and her team at JNG Worldwide continue to work with many of the industry’s best, Jean can often be found contributing and working with a number of travel publications and resources. Here is a collection of several recent stories, featuring Jean…
- Luxury Travel Advisor Magazine | Featuring Jean Newman Glock By: Meagan Drillinger for Luxury Travel Advisor For Jean Newman Glock, luxury isn’t about how much you spend; it’s about how much you see. It is about exploring one’s interests as exclusively and as in depth as possible. Experiential travel and insider access is all the rage now in luxury travel, but Glock, owner of […]
- Jean In The News | WTOP Washington DC When the New York Hilton Midtown recently decided to make a big change to their property by no longer offering room service to their 2,000 rooms and suites, WTOP reached out to me to get my take. Here’s the full story…
- Who Takes a Separate Camera for Travel Now? Who Takes a Separate Camera for Travel Now? I loved the pictures from my iPhone5 and the ease of posting them everywhere, right from my phone seemed to tip the scales against buying a new camera to carry when traveling. But after reading Ann Tran’s post on the Galaxy Samsung Camera, I was forced to reconsider. […]
- The Slow Cruise Movement. Are You a Slow Cruiser? Though megaships/cities at sea have been grabbing all the headlines recently, cruises come in all sizes and shapes. I have written about my passion for smaller ships but I need to elaborate further. My passion is for “slow cruising”. On a slow cruise (not about speed, think slow food) the focus […]
- Are We All Digital Diplomats? Digital Diplomacy is a topic that, for most people, conjures up images of embassies conversing with foreign governments and broadcasting information, messages and well — propaganda — to impact foreign policy goals. I covered the challenges that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo faced using social media in an earlier article, so I was particularly interested to […]
- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes “When Art Danced with Music” A Blockbuster Exhibit **Not to be Missed** Diaghilev’s Groundbreaking Ballets Russes to be Showcased at National Gallery of Art, Washington May 12–September 2, 2013—Sole US Venue Renowned artists include Nijinsky, Stravinsky, Picasso and Chanel
- Global Entry — Hurrah! (Note: If you are standing in a passport line reading this, bookmark it and wait until you are home. It won’t help and will only frustrate you. You should have applied for Global Entry last year.) For the past months (years), all of the news about air travel, airlines and airports has been negative. The […]
