Been There, Done That
Internet travel: it’s inexpensive, you never have to sit in a middle seat, and, your clothes never wrinkle. Hotel sites in Bermuda make me salivate. My favorites are the ones where a desk clerk takes a video camera for a 360: there’s the ocean, pause, the pool surrounded by the plastic deck chairs you can’t get out of, pause, the double-stacked pastel bungalows waiting for you, pause, the thatched restaurant, with the cute bartender smiling, waiting for my drink order. “Ze Diet Coke, with ze limon and ze lime? We have nevare zeen zis drink!” They’re French. Why not spend an hour visiting rental villas in Tuscany? They’re so cute and so old and so stone-wall-rustic. If you lived there, you’d have long legs and great hair and naturally glossed lips all the time. And, wow, you can’t be too careful about the rooms: antiques? hard wood floors? One time, I visited, in a cyber way, this hotel in Mexico that had all these great Aztec artifacts. Boy, it was so cool. You could be ...