Hunter Publishing, Inc.
An author, writing about Long Island's history must bow to the Indians who have lived here for more than 4000 years. About 400 years ago, we learn was their first contact with whom they called Algon-Quians, who taught them to fish, plant and fertilize. But in 1644, peoples from the Puritan regions in New England crossed Long Island Sound and settled the eastern end of the Island. But the growth of the Dutch settlers on the western end led to conflicts between the Dutch and the English, settled with today's borders between Nassau and Suffolk counties. Many Indian names are still used: Manhasset, Amagansett, Hauppauge among others.
The Island is about 100 miles long and the author provides "10 reasons to visit Long Island from its many parks and white sandy beaches to its more than 100 museums, superb restaurants, scenic waterways, Gilded Ages museums open to visitors, world class concert halls and arenas, some 7,000 extant structures built prior to the 20th century, unique architecture and animal refuges and preserves. Ms. Silverman then tells us of Nassau County's North Shore's "Best Places to Stay, Eat and Shop" North Shore's A to Z, from Animal Hospital to Zip Codes. The Islands south shore gets the same treatment for a visitor, from its museums and historic sites to its places for Family Fun, and "Best Pplaces to Eat, Shop, Stay from Old Westbury Gardens to Old Bethpage Village Restoration. The south shore is well represented for visitors of all ages.
We are told of the Island's many sports, from bicycling and swimming to golf and tennis.
Its many shopping malls, led by Roosevelt Field, the nation's fifth largest mall with 260 stores including Macy's, Bloomingdales and Nordstrom, was in 1927 the site of Lindbergh's take-off on his first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1995, Roosevelt Field Airport became the Roosevelt Shopping Center.
Dancing to live music, dinner shows, to blues jam, opera and comedy clubs, reggae and even dance lesson parties are here. Included in the book, a calendar of festivals and events. Local hotels and motels are listed with prices. Houses of worship and historic sites are listed and described, as are movies, fitness centers to casino cruises are described along with fishing clubs and bicycle centers.
We are informed about Nassau and Suffolk Counties' north and south shores, where to eat, where to stay. We're informed about the area from "sunup to sundown," from museums to parks, Montauk's famed light house, and where, and how to get to our chosen site, whether the Indian Museum or some of its many wineries.
There is a world of attractions right here on our island backyard. Let's go!
Drawer D
Petaluma, CA 94943
This year marks the 21st anniversary edition of The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfasts, Inns and Guest Houses International. We're given names of every state in the union with the names, number of rooms, and as The New York Times reports "all necessary information about facilities, prices, pets, children, amenities, credit cards and the like (like France's Michelin Guide)."
From Alabama to Wyoming into Canada's Alberta through the Yukon Territory, into Africa's Malawi through Tanzania, and into India's Anjuna, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand and into Australia's Adelong and Cook Islands, Fiji and New Zealand.
On to the Caribbean's Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica (remember that song?), Dominican Republic, Grenada, Honduras, Jamaica, Falmouth, Mimmee Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Robins Bay and Runnaway Bay. We read about Tortola, Trinidad, Tobago, the Turks Caicos, the Virgin Islands and Virgin Gorda. Into Central and South America's Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatamala, Honduras and throughout Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
In Europe, even poor Albania is mentioned along with Austria, Belgium's Bruges into Brugge and Brussels, with its new Hotel Mozart right near the Market Square, to the Czech Republic where the Casa Edith Stein began as a 16th century farm house converted by Italian nuns to house a convent, hotel and restaurant. In England, U.K. Bath and Derbyshire, in Dover, Exeter, and Gatwick and through many towns and cities plus London's eight family-run small hotels, all guaranteed to make your stay a pleasant one.
We go through Estonia's listings to France, from Aloxe-Canton, Bayeux and many of its small towns into Paris' many recommended small hotels and into Germany with a choice of few offerings, to Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, with many choices of places to stay from Clifden to Youghal. In Italy, our choices are many, from Ancona through Assissi, into Asti's bed and breakfast Cascina Caldera, to Florence's wide choice of bed and breakfasts from its Antica Pieve to its bed and breakfasts villa. If an all female residence is desired, Bed and Breakfast For Women Only is available. Throughout Italy from Milan to Monte Carlo and Naples and Rome's Accommodation Bed among many others available here including the American-sounding Alex's Bed and Breakfast Care, close to St. Peter's Basilica, a completely renovated 1800s house, to Siena's La Casa Gialla, Sorrento's Hotel II Nielo and Hotel Villa Schuler in Taormina through small towns into Venice and its choice of many bed and breakfasts including the recently refurbished Locanda al Beretere and the same family-managed since 1940, Villa Stella with an "excellent rich buffet breakfast."
In Amsterdam, situated within minutes of museums in a quiet residential area is the Maes Bed and Breakfast.
From Poland through Portugal, Romania (only one listed here) into Scotland, Spain and Sweden, bed and breakfasts are listed and described. Switzerland's, Turkey's and Wales' bed and breakfasts complete a thorough, detailed descriptions of foreign recommended bed and breakfasts. A handy listing to accompany bed and breakfasts seekers.
