by Amy Lynch After flying eight hours to visit my boyfriend in Germany for a month, I soon realized that I was not content simply to sit in his apartment and watch music videos during his workweek. Hence, I cooked up plans to take some side trips on my own to the cities I’ve always…
by Sheila O’Connor “Beautiful. And frigid”. That’s the comment left by one brave guest at Canada’s famed Ice Hotel on the shores of beautiful Lac St.-Joseph, a mere 20 minutes west of Quebec. The frozen fortress gets its name, not surprisingly, from the fact that nearly everything in the hotel is made of solid water….
by Sarah Naimark The unexpected is something we can forget to love. The secure ritual of daily life in consistent surroundings provides a warm familiarity that can be hard to cast off. This, interestingly enough, extends to our travel selves as well. We seek what we know, or at least what we can envision, chasing…
by Jennifer Anthony A few months ago, I purchased a book entitled 101 Things to Do Before You Die by British author Richard Horne. Though morbid-sounding, it’s actually a fun, cheeky book that contains an array of must-do activities, ranging from the feasible (“read all the literature ‘classics’”) to the rather silly (“meet someone with…
by Andrea Clarke Before I arrived in Washington, D.C., I had an A-list itinerary of places to see: the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Capitol Hill, Georgetown, and the easy-going suburb of Adams Morgan. As I planned my agenda during the forty hours it took me to get to Washington from Melbourne, I couldn’t help…
by Scharlene Fulmer After my husband died in 1988, I chose to fulfill my long-held desire to travel. Since then, I have traveled from Alaska to the Caribbean to the South Pacific to the Mediterranean. My most recent cruise was to the Baltic, where I visited the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The Hermitage Museum…
by Suzanne Dunning Amid Paris’ historic streets, just-off-the-runway fashions, and sinfully sweet pastry shops, the old-world glamour of the Hôtel de la Trémoille awaits you. Tucked along a quiet street, Hôtel de la Trémoille is in the heart of Paris’ Golden Triangle (the area between the Champs Elysées and the Seine), within walking distance to…