The Mont Blanc Esprit de Corps
17:44 12/11/2021
  Hiking Europe’s Tour du Mont Blanc was a totally different slice of European culture for me: Coming upon a remote farmhouse-turned-thriving-cafe...
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The Best Hike of my Life: The Tour du Mont Blanc
11:39 10/11/2021
Earlier this fall, four of us — total novices at long-distance treks — hiked around Europe’s highest mountain. (On the first day, big birds of prey...
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The Book of Kells — Christ Enthroned
14:55 16/10/2021
For me, one of the great joys of travel is having in-person encounters with great art — which I’ve collected in a book called Europe’s Top 100...
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How to spend Halloween in Barcelona: History and traditions
16:01 13/10/2021
Halloween in Barcelona is known as “Dia de los muertos”, in English; ‘Day of the Dead’, or ‘All Souls Day’. Instead of just a single- night...
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Siena: Italy’s Medieval Soul
3:40 06/09/2021
I believe a regular dose of travel dreaming can be good for the soul. Stow away with me to Siena, Italy, in this excerpt from my book For the Love of...
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Picasso’s “Guernica”  
7:13 29/08/2021
Watching the recent events in Afghanistan unfold in the headlines, I’ve been thinking about how important it is to humanize far-away tragic...
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My 1978 “Hippie Trail” Journal: Herat, Afghanistan
16:08 19/08/2021
With the fall of Afghanistan, I’ve been reflecting on my travel experiences there as a 23-year-old backpacker on the “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to...
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Afghanistan: Reflections from a “Trip of a Lifetime” (Literally) in 1978
16:16 17/08/2021
  While I know otherwise, I often find myself wondering if the name “Afghanistan” comes from some ancient word for “tragedy.” Afghanistan is...
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Flabbergasted in a Haarlem B&B
15:27 15/08/2021
  I believe a regular does of travel memories can be good for the sou. Here’s one of my favorites — and I’d love to hear some of your...
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“COVID and the Anti-Vaxxers”
8:24 13/08/2021
“COVID and the Anti-Vaxxers”   JK, it’s a 13th-century image of hell from the Florence Baptistery. Europe has suffered through many plagues...
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