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.
We were saddened to read about the passing of renowned dancer Mel Tomlinson in the New York Times this week. It stated he was “a ballet dancer of powerful, regal demeanor and one of the few performers…Continue Reading
Historic 16th- and 17th-century private homes—restored and repurposed as romantic hotels—are part of the attraction of Guatemala’s former capital, Antigua. We discovered a few of these during our stay and decided that the Palacio de Doña Leonor was one…Continue Reading
Huangshan (or Yellow Mountain), located in remote southeastern China, is one of the most stunning destinations on the planet. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this range of many unusual-shaped peaks rising above a sea of clouds creates an otherworldly…Continue Reading
Longsheng Rice Terraces (The Dragon’s Backbone), Guangxi Province, China. In this era of women proving time and again that they are very much the equals of the males of our…Continue Reading
For years, we’ve been making an annual summer pilgrimage to visit relatives who live on the coast of New Hampshire. And for years, seduced by lazy days on the water, we put off making an obvious side trip,…Continue Reading
It’s dawn in mid-summer. We’re driving slowly through Arches National Park just outside Moab, Utah. No other car is in sight. Billowy, lavender clouds drift overhead and turn incandescent as the sun rises.
To the west, enormous…Continue Reading
We can report some positive news from Florida! We recently took the new Brightline train from West Palm Beach to Miami for a Marlins’ game (The team’s state-of-the art stadium is just…Continue Reading
“There’s something terribly attractive about life in a place like this…it has a nice easy-going atmosphere, the kind of atmosphere I prefer to live in,” said the late actress Katherine Hepburn. She was speaking of tiny…Continue Reading