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…
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…
“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…
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…
As unlikely as a shimmering pearl nestled in a barnacle-encrusted oyster shell, the Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry, has transformed the once distressed,…
At the intersection of Calle de Pelayo and Calle de Fruela where old town Oviedo meets new town, you are greeted the instant you set…
Galicia, like Portland, is known for its wet weather but the skies are blue and spring is in the air when we arrive in A…
Chris is holed up in our hotel room, his laptop open, his left foot elevated above his heart. We have been catering in. The Galician…
“Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night.” Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon Travel-weary from an intercontinental ferry across the…
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