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.
In May 2019, Omani author Jokha Alharthi won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for Literature in London for her novel Celestial Bodies. She became the first Arabic language writer to win the prize and the first Omani female writer to be translated into…Continue Reading
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
On New Year’s Day in Palm Beach, we strolled down the beach at dawn. The sky was nearly cloudless, and the ocean unusually calm for winter—in fact, the Atlantic was as still…Continue Reading