"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
Montreal’s sprawling urban festival lights up the entire city starting Feb. 20 with light shows, food events, Ferris wheel, huge ice slide and lots more. February’s travel section takes readers to Toronto...
Men get most of the attention in Olympic hockey play but the Canadian women’s team plays at 10:30 a.m. Monday and at the same time Tuesday they’ll play the American women hockey...
The graphic depicted in this Greek washroom transcends language barriers I’ve been reading the gripes about substandard hotel rooms tweeted by journalists in Sochi and I have to wonder if any...
An athlete shown working with a kettleball was the surprise above my bed at the Le Germain in Toronto In the 6-by-3-foot black-and-white photo above my bed, a reclining man’s bare chest,...
Santa’s right at home at the Ostoff Resort here in Elkart Lake Wisconsin where winter is frosty and white and just cold enough for the ponds to be prepared for ice skating....
The December travel section was delivered to readers on Sunday with the second part of my Provence series about the towns of Aix-en-Provence and Arles, towns which are 50 miles apart and...
The Notre Dame de la Gard basilica, which guards the Marseille harbor, was the view from my room at the new Intercontinental. Hotel. The newest national park in France is near Marseille,...
Make your own soap at this tiny shop near the Old Port of Marseille, where soapmaking has been a tradition for hundreds of years. The mistral, which roars across the south of...
Ingredients for bouillabaisse are sold at the waterside morning fish market in Marseille Eating in France is always an adventure and regional specialties help to underscore the sense of place. Bouillabaisse, which...
Maureen Kelly and I cooked up the idea of a Passport Fair at a wine tasting one recent evening and now it’s ready to take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday,...
Recent Comments