Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category
Traveling in Arctic Norway
Tom Haines of the Boston Globe, one of the country’s better travel journalists, is currently wandering about in the Arctic regions of Norway. He’s blogging about his experiences for the Globe, and also just did an online interview with World Hum: World Hum: Where in the world are you? Right now, at the harbor in Vardo, [...]
To Hades and back
That’s how Diane Speare Triant described her recent trip to Greece’s beautiful Mani Peninsula, where some ancients had suggested the entrance to Hades was located. When someone poses that perennial question, “What did you do on your vacation?” our family has a zinger of a response: “We went to Hades and back!” To be sure, Mani [...]
The best croissant in Paris?
The International Herald Tribune recently debuted a travel blog called Globespotters, in which the paper’s foreign correspondents provide news, tips and advice from six of the world’s most traveled cities – Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, Hong Kong and Bangkok. An entry a few days ago speculated about the best croissant in Paris. One of the [...]
Expats in Krakow
From early 20th century Paris to late 20th century Prague, there is a long history of trying to discover cheap, trendy international outposts for expatriates. Some regard Buenos Aires as a hip and contemporary expat haven, and now the NY Times has labeled Krakow, Poland, as a popular international city for young Westerners. “There’s a lot of [...]
Seductive Seville
The city of Seville, Spain, is well known as a tourist destination and cultural center. It is apparently also a quite seductive and romantic place, at least according to this travel article from the Boston Globe: True to the legendary Don Juan who prowled its cobbled streets, this city seduces at first sight. Plazas blossoming [...]
Travels in Turkey
There are a lot of issues simmering these days in Turkey, from negotiations to join the European Union, to agitations by the Kurds for more autonomy, to a debate about democracy between secular and Islamist parties. None of that lessens the allure of the country as a travel destination, however. Tom Haines, travel writer for [...]
Italy’s stunning Amalfi coast
Italy’s Amalfi coast is a stunning series of cliffside villages. When Nicole Cotroneo recently decided to spend a week there, she chose to rent a villa in the small town of Praiano. She did get more exercise than she bargained for, since the town has a vertical landscape connected by staircases, but she also felt more a [...]
Encountering Portugal
If you have a hankering for wine and a trip to Europe, but Italy and France aren’t options, perhaps you should consider Portugal. The NY Times travel section recently ran a story on Oporto, Portugal, the home of port wine and with a city center that’s been declared a Unesco World Heritage site. But what that [...]
East meets West in Istanbul
Turkey is the place to go if you want to experience a bit of the Middle East and a bit of Europe in the same country. And Istanbul is one of the most interesting and beautiful cities in the world. You can sip apple tea by the shimmering waters of the Golden Horn while gazing [...]
Hitching rides in Romania
Hitchhiking doesn’t have the allure it once did, and in a number of places it’s really not even an advisable activity these days. But Mat Schultz discovered a different world in rural Romania, where he hitched rides along with the locals and wrote about his experiences for Lonely Planet. Botiza is the most perfect European village [...]
Travel in the Balkans
Nice trio of travel articles in the Sunday Washington Post about the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro: But as striking as the panoramas are in this part of the world, there’s something deeper than aesthetics going on. Here, in the overlooked southeastern corner of Europe that once stood for brutal warfare but is [...]
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