Welcome to Palermo, an operatic city if ever there was one. Make your way from the docks into the grand, dilapidated theater that is Sicilian…
After this it was sheer travel along the North African littoral, and the Mediterranean, and Sicily, and Greece. This: Tangier. This: the death of Don…
From Sassari in the north, we make our way by bus toward Cagliari on the the island’s southern tip. It’s springtime in Sardinia as we…
I first really noticed it on the prow of our ferry, the Kalliste, during our dawn docking in the Corsican port of Propriano. The sea…
“Ciao, hello, I’m Stephano. Are you Alison?” A slim, spry man with a kind voice asks in clear, thickly accented English. He looks directly into…
How can we be departing France already? Hefting my bag onto the shuttle van that will take me aboard the Kalliste, our night ferry to…
If we have a transcendent experience at one cave, shouldn’t we expect a transcendent experience at the next? What if the next cave is a…
Sometimes we make travel mistakes. Our most recent? Arriving in Bordeaux on April 30, and crashing thoughtlessly into a deep sleep. Why was that a…
It may sound quite taxing to bring you this digest of pintxos in San Sebastian: Thirty-six hours Ten stops Twenty-five pintxos. Drinks? Quite a few….
Similar to tapas, pintxos are Spanish bar snacks, popular in Basque cities and the Navarra region, and taken to high culinary art in food-forward cities…
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