Paris – Part 2

On the second time around we visited Paris,
we did not rush to see all the attractions, instead we wanted to experience the city like the local people do.
We stayed in the Marais. It’s a historic district area in Paris between the 3rd and the 4th arrondissments. It reminded me the Greenwich Village in NYC with all the quaint art galleries, cute little boutiques, eclectic fashion, unique jewelry, antiques and fine arts and delicious side street café and restaurants.

We stayed at the Les Jardins du Marais. This was a wonderful, trendy hotel conveniently located in the middle of everything and walking distance to all our favorite places.
The hotel is close to Place de la Bastille and it’s within walking distance to the famous Place des Vosges. It also boasts an Art Deco inspired lobby, leading into a charming glass roof atrium housing a restaurant and an opening onto impressive interior private gardens. This property provided a unique setting for a truly enjoyable stay in Paris. The hotel was 10 minutes walk from one of my favorite streets in Paris – Rue De Rivoli,

It’s one of the famous streets in Paris. Shops along include the most famous names in the world. One of my favorite is L’olivier, a wonderful store that sells the best Olive Oil in the world. This great road runs along the north wing of the Louvre Museum. We enjoyed walking up and down along this marvelous road and watched as the ambiance changes every few blocks and so was the scenery. I can never resist the temptation to stop by a patisserie and get a lovely Café Au Let and a mouth watering pastry. It doest’t get better than this.

We also visited a wonderful street market – The Bastille Food Market. It's right near our hotel in the Marais, It has fresh produce, seafood, baked good and prepared foods. The market was bursting with fragrance and color.
All I feft like doing after the visit to the market was to cook up a storm...
These were some of the wonderful things we got to experience, some attractions, delicious
foods, colorful markets, wine, art and long strolls along the avenues.
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HR in Hospitality conference this past week in Orlando

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This year’s HR in Hospitality conference and expo consisted of networking, research gathering, and the unveiling of new products. Developed by Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and Cornell University ILR School, the educational seminars include topics such as Managing Major Organizational Change: Effective Training, Communication and Integration, Employee Development as a Strategy for Growth, and How to Earn the Highest Returns on Your Human Capital Investments.

As a senior partner of Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research, job.travel will be exhibiting at the event. It will give both job.travel and Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research an opportunity to highlight a recent study. Intended to define the labor market for employees and employers, the study focuses on the actual knowledge and skills for a particular hospitality job. The outcome of the study demonstrates that one can match jobs with similar skills but with diverse titles and seemingly unrelated industries.
In recessionary times, when job opportunities seem slender in the industry, an approach that uses skill matching can expand a job seeker’s marketability. By the same token, when labor markets are tight, hotel managers might wish that they could recruit workers from different industries, but which other professions and fields? A new Job Compatibility Index developed at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration provides an answer.
To read more about Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research study, please follow this link: http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/about/pubs/news/newsdetails.html?id=541 .
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Paris - City Of Lights - Part 1

The more times one visits Paris the better it gets. Paris has so much to offer that it will be injustice not to visit the city again. The first time you’ll explore the famous tourist sites, but next time if you go back, you’ll experience the city in a whole new different perspective than before.
Paris has it all. Art, Museums, Flea and Open Markets, Culture, Food, History, Architecture, Cabaret, Bus Tours, Monuments, Operas, Parks and Gardens and the list goes on and on.

One of the reasons we love to visit Paris is because it’s a great city for walkers and one really gets the feel for the city as the scenerys and sites of colors and styles changes, so most of the attractions and sites we tried to see was by foot.

We walked up from our Hotel to the Notre Dam and took a guided tour inside the beautiful Gothic Cathedral. We admired the magnificent architecture structure especially the Flying Buttress (arched exterior support).

We walked up the world famous Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
Champs-Élysées is one of the greatest Avenues in the world & it’s the perfect place for people watch. The avenue extends from the Arc de Triumph at one end to the Place de la Concord at the other. During the day, you'll find fast-food joints and chain stores along with fine dining establishments and expensive boutiques. At night, clubs and cabarets pulse with life as crowds walk both sides of the street.Famous marches, celebrations and events have taken place down its length. It remains the most expensive strip of real estate in Europe.

Around sun down time we continue toward the Eiffel Tower so we can see it all illuminated from the Trocadero area in the 16th arrondissement. The Eiffel Tower lights up every evening from sunset to 1am (2am during the three months of summer), coupled with the lighthouse on the Tower top that sends out its light beams during the same hours. As for the glimmering lights, this ten minute show is added during the first five minutes of each hour on the hour. We spent the entire evening just hanging out in The Trocadero section which was very relaxing and quite. If you love to travel and also interested to work in the industry, please visit this remarkable this new web site: http://www.job.travel/ - it's a new job search engine for the Travel and Hospitality and feel free to register and look for jobs.


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Memories from Costa Rica

I wanted to share with you a great place to travel - the enchanted Costa Rica and the Manuel

Antonio Park.

We had the opportunity to visit about two years ago and felt we saw the “Garden of Eden”. Mainly the name “Garden of Eden” is due to the incredible selection of unusually interesting birds, butterflies, flowers and wild orchids along road side also a large variety of trees and animals seen nowhere on earth.

Costa Rica has more than More than 200 species of mammals, around 850 species of birds, almost 200 types of amphibians and 220 species of reptiles inhabit these lands.

We mostly stayed in the Manuel Antonio area. We pick this area because the proximity to the beach and the rain forest. We were glad we did.

The hotel La Mansion Inn was wonderful. The manager of the property communicated with me at least 4 rounds of emails, back and forth just to make sure that I’m well cared even before setting foot at the hotel. The hotel is small and intimate with gorgeous sunset and breathtaking ocean views,
We arrived in Jan Jose airport at 5PM and after clearing customs and going to arrival area I saw a man holding a sigh with my name on it. I immediately felt safe and at ease mainly because I didn’t have to worry about how to get to the hotel by my self -no rental car or buses will be needed, just sit back and relax and enjoy the ride.

We hopped on his comfortable and roomy SUV. The driver was extremely friendly, outgoing and took us quickly through the city. There we were off to the country ride to our hotel. The ride took around three & half hours and went into the country right across to the west through hills and vast valies

Manuel Antonio is in the Central Pacific side of Costa Rica in the middle of the rain forest and covered with jungle like tall trees with monkeys and sloths calling these trees home.

Right in front of the entrance to the hotel, the gardens have Birds of Paradise, Orchids and pretty butterflies.

We spent our days in this magnificent area admiring this vast nature and with each day we were there we noticed stress level is just melting away into these captivating forests.

Every day we walked to the beach through a trail inside the forest to experience nature, we also did Echo-friendly tour with a local company called: Titi Canopy Tour.

This is an adventure tour, a mile long traveling from platform to platform on suspended cables attached to a small, personal, high tech harness. What a way to see and feel the forest….

At night the topical plants emit this irresistible fragrance designed to attract specify insects. The most abundant flora in the rainforest is the ferns. The forest has numerous variety ferns, some reach several feet high. It’s interesting to see the height of the plants because they all need light to survive therefore they climb so high, some of giant size leaves – I just loved it all……

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Working in the travel industry

I have worked in the Travel & Hospitality industry for the past five and half years and wanted to share why I love it and wouldn’t trade it for the world!!
Throughout my career life I had a chance to try the following industries: Clothing, Food & Cosmetics, Telecommunications and The Travel and Hospitality industry where I hope to stay until I retire if I can.

When I first started working here and met people, I noticed a common trait for all!
The folks were happy, eager to help, friendly, humble, neat with clean attire and projected a feeling of calm, cool and collected.
I loved it!! This is the energy we want to project to a person booking a vacation package or when we’re helping people to find work in the travel business.

In addition, I quickly realized if you want to work in travel this means you have to love to travel and indeed many of my colleagues love to travel and they try to visit a new place or a far away place every chance they get.

So if you’re looking to work in a place with the kind of people mentioned above and this is also who you are, then look no further then http://www.job.travel/ where jobs in the travel and hospitality are waiting for you

Also if you’re an employer searching for folks with great qualities for your hotel, restaurant, cruise or airline and you’re looking to grow and attract customers then again you have found the right place- http://www.job.travel/ – Please register and hire.

A recent Trip to Israel

My husband and I just came back from a wonderful trip to our homeland – The beautiful, enchanted Israel. We loved every minute of it… We arrived Thursday October 23 around 3:15pm – the flight was on time and pleasant. We left from FLL and connected in EWR for a total of 14 hours flying time. We flew Continental Airlines and the service was great. I particularly loved the in house entertainment system, so I even managed to watch two good new release movies.

My husband’s brother in low picked us up from the airport and off we went to Netanya, my husband’s home town where his parent waited impatiently. The first initial reaction was so overwhelming, since his parents haven't seen him in while and big excitement was in the air. We spoke and eat some good delicious fresh Hummus, fresh from the market with warm pita bread, olives bursting with freshness and aroma and colorful salads.

So this is how our vacation started and that night we went to bed early being so tired from the flight but I already knew in my heart that this is going to be an extra special time for us.

The next day we rented a lovely Hyundai Tuscan SUV and drove up the coastal road to Haifa to see my mom and sister. The first visit reaction was also extremely overwhelming. Nothing like it.

Haifa is a beautiful mountainous city overlooking the bay and port. The entire city is situated up on mountain Carmel, so getting to my mom house involves driving up a winding coastal road with breathtaking views. LOVE IT !!!!!!

Having the rental car was a blessing; it made our stay extra special and convenient. We kept driving back and forth from my home town Haifa to Netanya.

We saw our good friends Nava and Oz. Nava recently opened her own coffee shop in the bustling Tel Aviv. The place was busy when we visited so it made us feel good to see this kind of a reaction to her new place. The coffee shop serves more than coffee. It features delectable deserts and signature entrees.

One day we drove with relatives to the Northern Galilee and the Golan Heights. Along the way we stopped at an incredible herb and farm facility. They grow, manufacture and market almost 500 spices and medicinal herbs nationwide and worldwide. Their visitor center exhibits the ever changing of common infusions, herbal mixes and spices. Of course my taste buds woke up and I ended up buying few selections of some rice mixes and fresh herbs and teas. This is their link: http://www.derech-atavlinim.co.il/english.asp.

For all of you interested to check out their web site.

The highlight of the trip was a marvelous wedding we went to but this info is for a new post maybe in the next few days….

So the reason for me writing this to you is keep traveling and exploring different places, different cultures and if looking for jobs in travel – go to the one and only http://www.job.travel/ where you will find enormous career choices and maybe one that will satisfies your travel thirst

Getting ready to travel

Nothing makes me happier and existed than getting ready to go somewhere!!

Thought of going feels my entire body with jittery feeling of excitement, and from so much excitement, I always start packing at least a week before we leave, god forbid I would forget something. The preparation part for a trip is exiting as well; I try to read as much as I can about the new place, I plan the itinerary; I pick up some good restaurants, museums, attractions and try to sort out what would be the best places to see and visit. I even try to learn to say few phrases in the new language and love to learn the geography. Anyways… all this preparing and planning – nothing like it in the whole world.


My sister makes somewhat fun of me and she thinks it’s hilarious.

I just love it … seeing other countries and different cultures and learn away….

If you too are interested on seeing and visiting other places and wants to work in this fun industry – starts by checking
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