As many Madrileños return home from their summer holidays, they still have a place right on their doorstep. The Parque del Buen Retiro ("Good Getaway Park") is 118 hectares (292 acres) in the...
31/08/2015
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Month: August 2015
Germany, like many other countries with strong culinary icons - in this case wurst and beer, but similar to bangers and mash in Britain and hot dogs/hamburgers in the USA...
28/08/2015
Perhaps the closest thing Latin America has to New York City (and in fact also has the Big Apple beat population-wise by several million - nearly 12 million/21 in metro...
27/08/2015
Earlier this month, in visiting longtime family friends outside Portland, on mid-coast Maine, I had the marvelous chance to rediscover a port city in which I hadn’t stepped foot...
26/08/2015
The historic capital and largest city of the Aragon region of northeast Spain, this elegant city of just over 700,000 is a fascinating (and fun!) destination for anyone interested...
24/08/2015
A good friend whose young, rich, sophisticated relatives were coming to town asked me for dining recommendations for beautiful people-watching. I came up with this glamorous dozen, with some...
21/08/2015
Say "south of Spain", and most non-Spaniards think only of Andalusia. And truth be told, even quite a few Spaniards don't know all that much about their own country's southern Autonomous Community...
20/08/2015
One of Central America’s most atmospheric cities, named upon founding in 1524 after the original Granada in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, this city on the shores of Lake Nicaragua...
19/08/2015
photo: Michal Ludwiczak
First off, let me grant that “adventurous” is a relative term. If you’re growing up in Iceland, for example, and rotted shark (hakárl) is part of your...
18/08/2015
When you think of the Renassance glories of the jewel in Tuscany's crown, Florence, highlights suh as Michelangelo's David, the Piazza della Signoria, and the Ponte Vecchio spring easily to...
17/08/2015
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