When traveling light, looking good, and dressing consciously come together, it can be beautiful in more ways than one. The Wool& womenswear company, producer of fashionable merino-wool apparel, takes a …
It’s hard to find a better, more authentic, and locally conscious way to see The Land of the Sun than with Journey Mexico. The award-winning luxury travel company is guide-owned …
Arriving in port a few days before a cruise departure is a typical recommendation, but when Paris is the embarkation point, the call for pre-cruise exploration sings strong. Who doesn’t …
Imagine you and a few dozen new friends celebrating Christmas by watching penguin chicks take their first steps. Seals doze on drift ice and the tail of a minke whale …
We had the best of both — an ultra-luxury cruise with the theme, “Spotlight on Cuisine,” and an unusual Scottish itinerary sailing into fjords and between islands as we visited …
I’ve always been a sucker for exotic trips with lots of exclamation points and never really focused on the U.K., figuring it was too tame and had one too many …
I’m eating baklava dripping with honey while watching hook-beaked black ibis fly in formation down the center of the Nile, where traditional felucca sailboats glide. The soundtrack to this age-old …
For spring cruises, look to your astrocartography map to find your Jupiter or Neptune lines. “Jupiter lines are fun-loving places to play games and for multi-generation family trips,” astrocartographer Helena …
Last October, a cruise ship sailed 6 miles from dock to dock without the help of a captain at the helm. (A human professional was watching; he just didn’t need …
Deep within Kenya’s wildlife-rich Maasai Mara, I’m not peering through binoculars at elephants or cheetahs but threading beads to make a bracelet, along with 20 industrious local women, nimble-fingered in …
It is just a short 7-mile drive from Vágar airport to the Múlafossur Waterfall near the tiny village of Gásadalur. My journey takes far longer than it should, as I …
I’m admiring the beautiful carvings of the Gyeongbukgung Palace in Seoul while clad in the traditional Korean hanbok dress — a short jacket top and a long, full graceful skirt. “One more photo, …
Diamonds in the rough are nothing but carbon subjected to heat, pressure, and time; they all start as something like this. Charred wood. The beauty of the material emerges from …
Feasting under the Tuscan sun on curly strozzapreti pasta laced with fragrant vegetables, chunks of Grotta Pecorino cheese drizzled with saba grape preserves, and slices of cured meats tucked with …
Have you ever thought, “I wish I started sailing sooner”? … “What if I could combine my love of sea travel with my studies?” … “Why didn’t I start exploring …
Under the bright Scandinavian sun, my family glided out onto the Copenhagen Harbour in our kayaks with a mission: to collect as much garbage as we could. Instead of renting …
Astrocartography can help you plan your dream cruises. This branch of astrology generates a personalized map of the globe with lines that analyze how different places on Earth relate to …
Pop quiz time: what was the bestselling English-language murder-mystery novel of the 19th century? If your answer, like mine, was something by Arthur Conan Doyle or Edgar Allan Poe, you …
When you think of castles, France, Germany, the U.K., and Ireland may be the first countries that come to mind. Of course they have many, but other countries sit proudly …
Sometimes the fondest dreams begin in cold, hard reality. That was the case for the more than 100 risk-takers who decided to abandon life ashore for months, years, even a …
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