Libya souks and shopping

Thumbnail image for Libya souks and shopping

Tripoli, also known as “the Jewel of the Mediterranean,” is Libya’s largest city, with souks offering a wide variety of unexpected and unfamiliar goods. Visitors will enjoy spices, fabrics, jewelry, and … smoking rabbits.

Read the full article

Americans in Bayeux — Normandy, France

Thumbnail image for Americans in Bayeux — Normandy, France

Few travelers visit Bayeux, a sleepy little hamlet of about 13,000 in the French region of Normandy and the closest city to the D-Day Invasion of June 6, 1944, where the allied forces stormed the beaches to liberate France from the Germans in World War II.

Read the full article

Libya before the War

Thumbnail image for Libya before the War

Tripoli—Libya’s capital and largest city, principal seaport, and leading commercial and manufacturing center—has been continuously inhabited since it was founded by Phoenicians in the 7th century. Now in the midst of a revolution, war, and suffering, it is full of warm, friendly people.

Read the full article

Barging the Canals of Holland

Thumbnail image for Barging the Canals of Holland

The geese and nearby morning rush-hour traffic startled me awake from my cozy bunk aboard the Hilversum, a 15-meter-long barge tied up in a small Dutch town that could have modeled for a Rembrandt masterpiece. Cruising through Holland’s arterial canals on our own privately piloted barge, we saw the countryside and some of its larger cities from a unique vantage …

Read the full article

Banana Tower

Thumbnail image for Banana Tower

As a child, I imagined strolling across the Field of Miracles on a sunny day. I didn’t know why it was called the Field of Miracles, but supposed the Virgin had probably appeared to someone there. That, or an innocent baby had been cured of a horrible disease. Perhaps both, since it was called the Field of Miracles—plural.

Read the full article

The Alhambra

Thumbnail image for The Alhambra

No wonder Granada has been a magnet for artists for many years: Lush gardens, intricate pattern, birdsong, fragrance, breeze, running water from ever-present aqueducts and fountains, gentle ripples on reflecting pools … all combine to create an expansive, placid atmosphere. Even the exit signs are elegantly carved into white marble.

Read the full article

Granada Recipe

Thumbnail image for Granada Recipe

Granada’s oldest city walls date from Iberian times; the most recent are from the early 1300s! The city’s narrow streets reflect its history. Some are so tight that “if two donkeys meet, they cannot get through.” People started to get cars in Spain in the 50s, and many now drive small Smart Cars in order to navigate the narrow streets. There were also plenty of “streets that go nowhere.”

Read the full article

Best Mother’s Day Present: Napa

Thumbnail image for Best Mother’s Day Present: Napa

Napa Valley is more than a place to taste excellent wine and enjoy famous California cuisine; it’s also sublimely beautiful, with roses alongside winding roads, Spanish moss dripping from sturdy white oaks, and red-tailed hawks soaring above charming towns and whispering ghost pines.

Read the full article

Costa Rica: See Before You Go

Thumbnail image for Costa Rica: See Before You Go

See Costa Rica before you go: This 92-page photo journal illuminates San José, the Butterfly Farm, the Macaw Rescue Center, mysterious “espheras” (spheres), wildlife diversity at Corcovado on the Osa Peninsula, and more.

Read the full article

Apulia, Italy

Thumbnail image for Apulia, Italy

Discover Italy’s newest “it” destination  in this full-color, 76-page photo-journal. You’ll see: Apulia’s delicious and healthful culinary and spa traditions Charming and historical trulli homes World-class wines and olive oils The hand-made ceramics of Grottaglia Singer Al Bano (who popularized Volare) Matera’s iconic sassi Idyllic hilltop towns, churches, museums, and castles And even mummies! Reader [...]

Read the full article

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →