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Turkey
Journeying west to east as ideas and identities struggle to take root in the Asian arc of Turkey.
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- New and old
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Romania
Seeking warmth among historic monasteries in the weeks before Romania joined the European Union.
Gearing up
Comforting carry-on worth the toting
This adorable (and washable) blanket can be folded and stuffed into its own pocket, making a pillow that's kid-sized and perfect for travel.
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So, these women walk into a castle . . .
It seems that every other week in Richard Carpenter’s Real Deals another women’s business has joined the travel industry. On bikes, on hikes, on safaris,...
Summer in N.E.
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Extreme photo contest
Share your summer adventure photo for a chance to win a luxurious golf getaway.
Long Jaunt
Local adventurers are traveling the world and you're invited to come along.
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Artfully big, tastefully simple
Innovation inspires museum makeovers and cuisine that entices Europe. Explore the sights and flavors of Madrid.
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 Paris with kids
Paris is kid-friendly. See how the city of lights can entertain the smallest eyes. Read the story Story Guignols punch lines
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 What not to wear
Trying to avoid being tagged a tourist in Paris? See how to avoid a French fashion faux-pas. |
There's this pub in...
Lift a pint or two at a handful of the favorite Irish haunts of barkeeps in Boston. Read the story |
Sherry at home
From the fruit of Cádiz, Spain, travel along on one of Jerez's bodega tours. See photos
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Go ashore in an old world
Take a river cruise through Russia to find a vibrant, happy, and proud people.
Mind the uniform
Once the army's elite, Russian paratroopers celebrate their own holiday full-bore in Moscow.
From The Boston Globe
Air One promises Italian immersion
Air One, the Italian airline, said last week that it is launching its first flights between the United States and Italy, including a flight from Boston to Milan. Air One said its inaugural flight to Boston will arrive at Logan International Airport on June 14; the Boston-Milan connection will fly daily except Tuesday and Thursday.
At American U. of Paris
A native of Athens who moved to Boston three years ago to attend Northeastern University, Mary Ann Georgantopoulos is accustomed to jet lag and culture shock. She first visited Paris in high school and "fell in love" with it. Even so, this travel-savvy student hit a bit of turbulence as she began her tenure at The American University of Paris ...
Paris dreams of things to come - after an apéro
PARIS - It's as if the tour buses that stop at the base of Montmartre keep their customers on a short leash. Most first-timers walk through the tourist trap above the Boulevard de Rochechouart and take the funicular to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica before making an inevitable U-turn and heading back down the hill.
Some tips to help make your dollars stretch in Europe
PARIS - I have lived here for almost seven years. I saw the euro arrive and watched the dollar slowly lose ground. In the beginning, the pinch never felt too bad. Would I pay a couple of extra cents for my Saturday morning croissant? Bien sûr! But as the dollar continued to slide, I realized that if I paid with ...
A year in Edinburgh
Christie Ko left Boston to spend a year in Scotland, where she is working on a postgraduate degree in literature and post-modernity at the University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk). She has learned to love haggis and Scottish folk music, while pining for organic vegetables and seeing the sun on a regular basis.
In Italy, a master turns stemware into sculpture
MURANO, Italy - On this island a mile north of Venice, tourists arrive by the boatload to visit the famed glassmaking studios and galleries. Though the shops vary from low-end to high, most of them quickly blend together. The studio-gallery of Luigi Camozzo, however, is an island apart. So are the master engraver's prices, but if you can't afford his ...
One stopover that deserves a stay: Geneva
GENEVA - In my 15 years as an international tour guide, I visited this city perhaps 20 times. But each time it was a waypoint to what I believed were greater adventures.
Artfully big, tastefully simple
Coming from a city that endured the Big Dig, we can't complain about a little construction work. Madrid's roads aren't exactly all torn up, but it's still hard to walk a block in the old center without encountering scaffolding or construction tape. With the Spanish economy roaring, the capital city is getting a major makeover.
A pub-brewery tour, with culture on the side
WHO: Scott Anderson, 43, of Groveland; John Mather, 61, of Groton; Gary Sannicandro, 43, of Hopkinton; Dave McCormick, 31, of Wayland; and Chris Hughes, 44, of Westford.
Wild fuchsias are the signature of a monastic tradition
CONNEMARA, Ireland - In summer, the narrow, winding roads of this region of County Galway are bordered by massive hedges of wild fuchsias, the delicate, pendant, red-and-purple flowers shimmering like jewels against deep green foliage. The flower's common Irish name is Deora Dé, or God's tears, and perhaps that is why it is the signature design of a line of ...
Dresden can add recovery to its treasures
DRESDEN, Germany - By the standards of this house, the treasure before me is modest: a finely hammered gold goblet with four inlaid thumb-size sapphires, and a few rubies and pearls. It belonged to Ivan the Terrible, who perhaps quaffed from it after conquering Siberia in the late 1500s.
A lake favored by royalty from Rome to Hollywood
COMO - It wasn't as if nobody ever came here before George Clooney bought a couple of lakeside villas for eight figures. Julius Caesar founded the city of Como (as Novum Comum) in 59 B.C., and in the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder had a spread in Bellagio, on what the locals call Lago di Como.
It can fit any Spaniard's taste
VALENCIA, Spain - This city is an ideal place to sample the region's most famous dish: paella. There are as many kinds as there are kitchens, though most agree on the basic ingredients for traditional Valencian paella: rice, chicken and/or pork and rabbit, beans, and occasionally snails. Other variations call for seafood - prawns, mussels, squid - as well as ...
Wearing of the green can mean it's coming or it's your time to go
St. Patrick's Day symbolizes to many of us the imminent approach of spring while stirring thoughts of a lovely land of friendliness. Whether you are pondering your first trip or a return visit, here are some offers to get you thinking green.
Everyone gets Guignol's punch lines
PARIS - After two centuries of misbehavior, a puppet named Guignol is still tweaking authority figures and getting away with it.