"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
My daytime British Airways flight to London required an early-morning check-in, so the new TWA Hotel at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was an obvious choice for my most...
Sark is an enchanted isle lost in time, floating like a mirage in the English Channel. Although a magical place for today’s visitors, it was Europe’s last bastion of the medieval feudal...
During a recent week’s vacation in sunny Seville, in the south of Spain, I gained lots of insight into why the Spanish are on target for having the longest lifespan in the...
Not far from Puerto Viejo, dedicated souls work to help the jaguar and other creatures The Jaguar Rescue Center and La Ceiba Private Reserve near Puerto Viejo was my long-awaited destination...
The distant call of train whistles has been an almost unconscious part of my life for decades, informing my dreams of distant places and thoughts of travel as I nod off each...
Early morning was my favorite time, when the fog lingered on the still surface of the canal, and the crowing of a rooster from a nearby farm welcomed the day. Before anyone...
As soon as we discovered that the small swimming pool on the Opal’s sun deck was really a large, heated whirlpool, our attitude toward the rain changed. Sitting in the hot, swirling...
When I saw Vegemite on the expansive breakfast buffet, I realized those vaguely British accents I’d been hearing on the Opal were Australian, not English. Vegemite — a paste made from brewer’s...
On my recent visit to Martinique I stayed in La Pagerie, where the island girl who became Empress Josephine as Napoleon’s wife, was born and spent her early years. Even 200 years...
A flashlight beam came up from the pitch black darkness as we drove between banana groves on a rutted red-dirt road on Martinique. “They’re hunting land crabs for Easter dinner,” explained our...
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