Destination Insights

The Cotton-Candy Beauty of Pamukkale, Turkey

By Suzie Rodriguez Even 10 miles distant, this bleached-limestone plateau is a dazzling sight, rising an abrupt 400 feet from a flat and dry valley. Beautiful but incongruous, it seems to float on a hazy edge of reality until, as you draw closer, its massive whiteness sharpens in detail. Graceful ripples and convolutions appear, [...]

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Casa Luna, Our Favorite Place to Eat in Ubud

Casa Luna … what a wonderful restaurant, the best of Bali One thing we appreciated in addition to the ambiance was that owner Janet De Neefe founded the Ubud International Writers Conference, which has become recognized world-wide for the top writers it attracts. The conference includes author readings and allows folks to meet face-to-face. However, this post [...]

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Bali Photo Book

Destination Insights—Bali Enjoy Bali, Indonesia, with more than 300 full-color photos and the quirky story of award-winning travel writer Laurie McAndish King’s visit to an Eat, Pray, Love healer. Photos include Balinese dancers, Komodo dragons, ancient temples, contemporary art, rice fields, Luwak coffee, traditional batik, magical double-ikat weaving, the salt-makers of Amed and much more. [...]

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Snow in San Francisco

‘Tis the Season for Science at the California Academy of Sciences, as the popular exhibit celebrating the science behind holiday traditions returns for a second year. It’s a festive must-see for children and adults alike. Enjoy indoor snow flurries twice an hour in the Piazza. View taxidermy specimens of the real birds mentioned in “The Twelve [...]

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Coming Soon—Bali

Our writing and photo team have been in Bali, Indonesia for some time now and we are looking forward to their stories and photos. We hope to see them in December.

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Kotor Marketplace and the Feta Man

Kotor is a small town on the coast of Montenegro, and has a lively marketplace filled with fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and eggs, wine and cheese. We embarked on a cheese quest … Story and photos by Jim Shubin Kotor seems to be prosperous: the women are stylish, the town sports an inordinate number [...]

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Museo Storico Navale, Venice Italy

Venice is a city where one can wander with no set plans, and so it was with us. We happened upon a building with a huge anchor in front and letters high above the door reading: Museo Storico Navale. Museo could only mean museum (we hoped) so we walked in. Having fallen in love with [...]

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Barging Through France

A lesson in relaxation — by David Greitzer Saying you’ve barged through the canals of France is like saying you’ve reached the end of the internet. In a word — impossible. However, it is possible to experience some of what seems a infinite task. It’s kind of like eating an elephant; just take one bite [...]

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Searching for Sheela-Na-Gig

Sheela-na-gig’s invitation is fraught with danger. Our relationship began with my quick peek at a wildly pornographic image in Thomas Cahill’s popular book, How the Irish Saved Civilization. An ancient goddess, Sheela is rendered symbolically, stripped of all but the essential features. She is naked, bald, and breastless, and reaches both arms behind her bent legs, using [...]

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