I've been wanting to visit Barbados for years and when the opportunity came up a couple of months ago, I didn't have time to research hotels and resorts. We lucked out thanks to a few...
On our way to the Caribbean, we stopped over in Miami since it had been several years since I had a chance to play in this American city, one which oozes all things Latin with...
Mumbai made me sick. Actually, that’s not true: It was the malaria prophylactic I was taking that turned me inside out—Mumbai’s heat and humidity just exacerbated it.
The city formerly known as Bombay was the first...
Like Romania as a whole, Bucharest is the sum of strange parts. Architecturally, the city has its own triumphal arch, but also a massive edifice (by some measures, the world’s largest building) constructed by a Communist dictator,...
The last time I touched down at Barajas Airport, the topic of how many days in Madrid I might spend was far from my mind. Having arrived on a red eye that was too short...
I am not a skier. I never learned as a child; my experiences as an adult have been humiliating, to put it mildly. Yet in spite of this, the word “japow” is firmly in my...
We've been starting to see a trend toward more experiential gifts over the last couple of years, so we'll be doing a write-up this spring with some fun-filled suggestions, both travel and lifestyle-related. That said,...
My travels in Helsinki have always come after seeing somewhere more exciting, be that the reindeer forests near the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, or the islands of the country’s Gulf archipelago. Indeed, they’ve been...
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