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…
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,…
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…
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