Things I love: delicious local food, exploring a new town, sharing a great bottle of wine, hotel rooms with a view, cocktails at a fab hotel bar, sunsets at the beach, wine country anywhere in the world, excellent service and reading a book by a beautiful pool. Things I can't stand: overly crowded places, hotels that gross me out, wasting a meal on something touristy, rodents of any kind, crappy wine, mean people, being over-scheduled and not having anything scheduled at all.