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...
by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text and photos ©2012 Burma is now on many world travelers’ “A” list. With the release of Nobel Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest last year and her subsequent triumphant election campaign, tourism to the country is at an all-time high. Decades of...
by Bill Marsano | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Alliteration conjures treasures in the Veneto. Venice, Verona, Vicenza come readily to mind, and a fourth joins them in an old folkloric rhyme: Veneziani, gran signori; Padovani, gran dottori; Vicentini, mangia gatti; Veronesi, tutti matti. Freely...
by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
© 2011 A painting made me do it. I’m not sure whether it was “Purple Hills II” or “LavenderHill with Green 1952” that gave me the itch but when a friend gifted me with a coffee table book commemorating Georgia O’Keeffe’s artwork, I knew I had to set foot on the land...
by Bill Marsano | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text and photos ©2011 by Bill Marsano Languedoc-Roussillon is almost invariably short-changed. It’s blessed by lovely, lively Nîmes and dramatically walled Carcassone, but Provence just across the Rhone gleams with Avignon, Arles and Aix, with gritty Marseille and...
by Phyllis Meras | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text ©2010 Long ago, when Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, a compassionate angel, seeing the abandoned flowers weeping there, swooped down and gathered an armful of them to carry back to a happier home in Heaven. But as the angel flew across the Atlantic,...
by Curtis King | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
text ©2010 I first visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in 1997. It was a quiet, charming capital city that had only recently opened up to the West. Traditional Vietnamese culture had not really been exposed to the modern outside world – most women still wore...
by Lee Daley | Nov 11, 2014 | Travel, Travel blog
Text and Photos ©2010 by Lee Daley From cool and classy to centuries-old and traditional, Oaxaca never fails to entertain Whether it’s sassy and sultry, simmering with sensuality or slow and easy with a soothing after dinner drink, Oaxaca nightlife serves up...
