"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
Geneva-on-the-Lake visits got their start early in the 20th century with the growing popularity of the automobile. Friends Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and John D. Rockefeller came to camp, fish and relax on...
Shut down from traveling by the novel coronavirus pandemic, I’m just back from my first flights in 14 months — a long weekend foray to Baltimore to visit a daughter and grandson...
People ask if I visited a coffee shop during my 48 hours in Amsterdam. The city’s coffeeshops (one word in Amsterdam), where marijuana is purchased and smoked, are as legendary as its...
A food walking tour in the Jordaan neighborhood was our choice for a short visit to Amsterdam at the conclusion of a week long Rhine river cruise aboard the Scenic Opal. Dogged...
Loving Lozere: Least-populated part of France a great destination for solitude and long walks My seatmate was losing it. Trembling from head to toe, she was dripping with sweat and gasping for...
Still the cultural and religious center of Spain, Toledo once was the country’s capital. Because the hilly small city dozed off the grid for decades, it’s remarkably well-preserved and retains the imprint...
I’d hoped a visit to Consuegra for the annual Saffron Rose Festival would help me learn why this spice is considered more valuable than gold. Not far from Toledo, directly south of...
Developing recipes is one of the more challenging aspects of my work here at The News-Herald. It’s an even bigger challenge when the dishes originated in another country and I am dealing...
Step into Monet’s garden at Giverny and enter a living work of art by the father of Impressionism. Claude Monet was in his 40s and already a well-known painter when he established...
Charmless strip shopping lines many multi-lane highways, and resorts — such as Disney’s Grand Floridian — are often the only places attempting to recreate elements of the past. Unless you look hard,...
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