Perhaps you haven’t yet heard of ‘new latitude’ wines. These are vintages whose grapes are grown in places—usually tropical places—your French great-grandmother thought were good…
After a few days they came to Naxos, the home of Ariadne and the white wine. And also the home of Anastasia Demetriades who claimed…
When we travel halfway across the planet to Delphi, we’re going to put some questions to the Oracle, aren’t we? You bet! We’ve put our…
There is no sign. No conventional marking or advertising. The hours are not posted. It is like Brigadoon in this way: part of the magic…
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…
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….
Pinnacles of experience don’t find words easily. But I will try. I must try. Let’s go together. Enter the cave. There are three doors, one…
In Tangier something happened that had been hanging like a storm, and it broke on the third day there. Doomsday morning was sullen, and it…
You may not know it, but March 19 is Father’s Day in Portugal. We did not know it either, until we entered a patron-free one-woman…
The Iberia flight from Chicago to Madrid is nothing if not a clear line of demarcation from the United States: A substantial airline meal, with…
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