by Lisa Richardson | Dec 21, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
The city beckoned as the 737 landed mid-afternoon at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. We craved NOLA’s offerings and anticipated people and places prepared to satisfy. Four days and three nights later, ten highlights are too delicious to keep to...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 8, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
FutureBrand, the international business evaluation company, surveyed thousands of people to describe countries worldwide in a few words. The three most frequent for Italy were culture, beauty, and food. Without a doubt food is a “driver” when it comes to...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 17, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text and photos ©2012 Driving down nearly deserted roads during the first two weeks of October, I couldn’t help but wonder, ‘If this is the busy season, what is Vermont like in the off-season.’ This, after all, was the “high season” as...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 17, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and photos ©2014 Through television series and advertisements, millions who have never been to California are nonetheless familiar with the sunny beaches of southern California, the dramatic cliffs of Big Sur, the rocky shores of Pebble Beach, the...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 16, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
It seems that every inch of Italy is “wine country,” though some areas are more popular than others. Popularity comes with a higher price and more fellow tourists to contend with. Even at the height of summer, Italy’s Adriatic coast is free of the hoards of tourists...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 15, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Molise is a tiny region with just 28 kilometers of seaside and very limited tourism. Wine has been made here since pre-Roman times, and was commented upon by Pliny the Elder. Today the area has about 49,000 acres under vine, grown on the long, low hills that stretch...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 15, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
The political divisions along the Adriatic are merely arbitrary human delineations and bear only cursory resemblance to the landforms, so I think I should take a moment here to set the topography in the reader’s mind. Behind Molise, the mountains rise to about 3,000...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 15, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
For the gastronomic traveler, there are reasons enough to visit Marché (pronounced Mar´kay). From the culinary point-of-view, Marche is a little more sophisticated than Molise or Abruzzo, sharing borders and culinary traditions with Emilia-Romana and Tuscany, as well...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 15, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and photos ©2010 Tucked away in a steep-sided narrow valley in the Northeastern part of the country, Alto-Adige seems a world apart from the rest of Italy. It’s almost unknown to American tourists who stick to more traveled roads, though it’s a popular...
by Lee Daley | Nov 15, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and photos ©2012 The crossing: Getting to Whistler by air requires flying to Vancouver, a beautiful city that deserves at least afew days of your time. En route to Whistler, the awe-inspiring ambiance of the Sea to Sky Highway with its misty mountainous...
by Phyllis Meras | Nov 14, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text ©2013 Photos ©2013 by Sal Laterra I have two strong recollections of my first visit to Turkey more than four decades ago. In Istanbul I stayed in the Youth Hostel overlooking the Bosphorus. Then and there, I decided that Istanbul must be one of...
by Scott W. Clemens | Nov 13, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Review by Scott W. Clemens For the most part, I prefer the country and small towns. Yet there are in this world a few cities that I look forward with eager anticipation to visiting again and again. With its intertwining layers of history, art, and the art of...
