SAN RAMON, Calif.—The seasonal Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink held its opening ceremony on Nov. 17 this year with special ice-skating performances. The outdoor rink, located at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, California, was canceled last year due to the pandemic. This year, people told NTD Television they are glad to be back…
Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink Reopens
November 20, 2021
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Hotel’s Chef and Engineers Construct Annual Life-Size Gingerbread House
November 20, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO—Making a gingerbread house is a holiday tradition, but the hotel Fairmont San Francisco takes it to a new level by creating a life-size, two-story-high Victorian gingerbread house. Professionals working on it told NTD Television that planning for it starts early on. “We had to start several months ago, back in July,” said Michael…
Explore Your Special Interest on a Themed Cruise
Several people watch a master baker demonstrate making pastries; participate in a chocolate, cheese, and wine tasting; and enjoy a food-and-wine pairing gourmet dinner. Golfers play at some of the most famous courses around the world before attending a tournament that brings together the top professionals. Music fans of tunes that were popular during the…
Milwaukee: The Capital of Frozen Custard
In 1919, after discovering that adding egg yolks into ice cream creates something magnificent, Archie and Elton Kohr became the first vendors of “frozen custard.” They opened a stand, not in the heart of dairyland, but in New York’s Coney Island. While the sources seem sketchy, the claim is out there that Milwaukee has the…
Santiago de Compostela: Is This Spain’s Most Appealing City?
The man walking across the Plaza de Obradoiro is dressed in an outfit quite unlike anything else my wife and I have ever seen before. His broad-brimmed felt hat, which is turned up at the front, is decorated with a bright scallop shell. He is holding onto an eight-foot-long stave. The stave also has a…
The Rady Shell is San Diego’s New Landmark
It’s a perfect evening in San Diego, the setting sun casting a golden glow over the city’s skyline. Along the waterfront a passing parade of visitors is admiring the mighty presence of the aircraft carrier Midway and the sleek hull and towering masts of the clipper ship Star of India. At the same time, a…
Mendocino County’s Overlooked Wines
Wines from California’s Mendocino County are hardly unknown. Yet, a recent weekday trip to this county, located along the rugged North Coast some 100 miles from San Francisco, revealed an appellation that looked and felt more authentic than the more fashionable and commercialized vineyards in the adjoining counties of Napa and Sonoma. My visit came…
Northern Wales: Misty but Delightful
That slight drizzle that the Welsh prefer to call “mist” didn’t bother us at all as we walked about the tiny village of Beddgelert. Wales may often be “misty,” but it is also delightful—and Beddgelert is a good example of what makes it so. This tiny village of only 300 is exactly the sort of…
Traveling Back in Time in Southern California’s Conejo Valley
You wouldn’t expect a chunk of the Berlin Wall to be standing in Southern California, amid its beach destinations and fashion-forward cities. But there it is, at the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, perched high above the valley and overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The wall features a graffitied pink butterfly and flowers; the drawing doubtlessly…
Where Did States Get Their Nicknames?
In the mid-1800s so much precious metal covered the ground in Nevada that prospectors could shovel it up. A century later an avian disaster struck bird life along the Louisiana coastline. Today visitors can relive those chapters of the past in Nevada, Louisiana, and elsewhere while learning how they and other states got their well-deserved…
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