Everywhere you look on this jewel of an island an hour’s ferry ride from the mainland there's a scene that could be framed: sweeping vistas...
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Columbus’ discovery of America was still a novelty and Michelangelo, 45, was basking in his triumph at the Sistine Chapel, when Christian II of...
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Vineyards, olives, and lavender were everywhere. We could be talking about my Santa Ynez Valley home, but we were in Provence. The mountain roads...
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Hemingway famously called Paris a moveable feast. Now it is a moveable homeless camp. Tents on the glorious Seine embankment and makeshift shacks...
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This sea level city of 70,000 souls may be global warming's first victim, a latter day Atlantis of gift shops, stuffed with the ridiculous and the...
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Mark Twain wrote about Venice in "The Innocents Abroad" in 1869; no one has topped his reporting yet. "We have seen, in these old...
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Mark Twain wrote about Venice in "The Innocents Abroad" over a century ago; no one has topped his reporting yet. "The Venetian...
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Mark Twain wrote about Venice in "The Innocents Abroad" over a century ago. No one has topped his reporting yet. "...afloat on the...
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The levee towered above us as we drove toward Marken, a fishing village formerly an island, now linked to the main by a causeway. As we finally...
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Che Guevara's mug on an elephant in Amsterdam I did not anticipate. Nor Barack Obama as a pachyderm....
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