I am a food and travel writer as well as a cruise ship enrichment speaker: my passion is exploring the cuisine, history, and culture of new places and writing about them here in my free bi-weekly (twice monthly) Destination Curation newsletter where I look at the intersection of history, culture, and cuisine in major destinations.
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🇹🇳 Everything You Need to Know about Carpets 🇹🇳
Published 12 days ago • 10 min read
November 16, 2025 Greetings! We are having an unexpected sea day today on Seabourn Ovation, due to high winds off the coast of the South of France. This means all hands to the pump for Guest Conversationalists. I am giving my talk on “Flotsam and Jetsam: The Nautical Origins of Common English Expressions,” which is always light-hearted and fun. I have an article version of this, which you can enjoy here. Did you receive this newsletter from a friend? Click here for your own free subscription....
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