Last year I surf-waxed poetic about the glorious beaches of Costa Rica’s Pacific Ocean coast, one of its top tourism draws. A bit less well known and fewer in...
29/10/2015
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Iberia Destinations
Yet another European city tracing its roots back to a settlement of the Roman Empire, the Flanders (Dutch Belgium) city of Antwerpen (Anvers in French) started coming into its...
26/10/2015
When it comes to cities in Cuba, capital Havana does hog a disproportionate share of the attention – and it’s not hard to understand why. But at the southeastern...
20/10/2015
Chile is a very special country full of very special sights and experiences. But the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui is not only special, but dramatically unique in all...
19/10/2015
If you're thinking about a trip to Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, it's really worth your while to also give a thought to adding another several days for a visit...
13/10/2015
Especially for such a tiny country, Panama has quite a bit to offer even beyond the canal and the historic and and also excitingly modern capital Panama City. One particularly cool...
08/09/2015
Most of us understandably think of Dutch cities as steeped in picture-postcard canals, quaint bridges, and low slung, stepped-gable houses, à la Amsterdam and Delft. But the Netherlands' second largest city (pop....
02/06/2015
In her seminal travel memoir In Morocco, the reknowned early-20th-century American writer Edith Wharton described travelling in this country as "like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all adorned...
25/05/2015
The Dominican Republic's best-known beach resorts area, perched out on the country's eastern tip where the Caribbean and the Atlantic meet, has especially in the past couple of decades grown into the...
20/05/2015
Up in the Andes mountains, named for the New Castile city that was the hometown of the Spanish viceroy at the time of its founding in 1557 is so lovely and historic that it's been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999
30/04/2015
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