Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
Seventy miles from historic St. David’s Cathedral, the town of Swansea—birthplace of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)—looks out over the sea. It was along this coastline that Thomas, the country’s most famous poet, drew inspiration during his…Continue Reading
Oxford, Mississippi was home to William Faulkner, the state’s Nobel Prize-winning writer, who passed away in 1962. A visit to Oxford (also home to the University…Continue Reading
“Chinese ceramics are good for the eye; Vietnamese ceramics are good for the heart.”
This is a sentiment from an unnamed Vietnamese scholar quoted in the…Continue Reading
We first went to Morocco some 25 years ago. It was a challenge back then to find an American who knew where the country was, much less one who had been there. Our return trip,…Continue Reading
In early December, we made our annual pilgrimage to Art Basel Miami Beach—the foremost contemporary art extravaganza in the country. (See the brief production about this event on our website, Continue Reading
The Knoxville Museum of Art (www.knoxart.org) is staging the first U.S. exhibit outside New York City of the ceramics of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (pronounced I-way-way). He is China’s first contemporary art megastar, ranked #13 by Art Review magazine on…Continue Reading
In preparing for a recent trip to Rome, a well-travelled friend insisted we read H.V. Morton’s timeless book about the Eternal…Continue Reading