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.
The image is from Vik Muniz’s body of work called Postcards from Nowhere. Using many shredded postcards, he re-assembles the scraps to represent something entirely different, in this case, a panorama of Jerusalem. As Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Hong…Continue Reading
This is a big year for Charleston’s internationally renowned Spoleto Festival, a showpiece for the performing arts. If possible, try to visit in late spring and join the excitement!
The Festival marks…Continue Reading
Our recent European river cruise on the Mosel, Rhine and Main rivers began with three days in Paris. A road trip from…Continue Reading
“It’s wonderful to see you again and be reminded that you once lived among us!”
This was how Ashley Saunders greeted me, a man who some 50 years ago was my student in Bimini’s ramshackle,…Continue Reading
The successful fly-by of Pluto in July 2015 by the spacecraft New Horizons captured our imaginations like nothing else in recent memory. Just think of it. NASA had a very narrow window to launch the spacecraft— a…Continue Reading
Now that President Obama has restored diplomatic relations with Cuba, more Americans than ever are interested in visiting the island, which is just 90 miles from Miami, Florida.
We visited Cuba on…Continue Reading
France in the Caribbean. This phrase captures the essence and appeal of St. Barthélemy (commonly called St. Barths). All those things Americans love about France—exclusive accommodations, exceptional hospitality and cuisine, exciting nightlife and…Continue Reading
Don’t miss exhilarating Japanese jazz pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara (known professionally as Hiromi)! Her stage presence exudes spontaneous joy, and her incendiary playing excites audiences around the world.
We’ve heard many fine pianists over the years—both classical artists…Continue Reading