Deep, dark, and funny
Should this image of the Paris catacoombs disturb you? Ask columnist Henry Bennett, whose 50 years of travel (mis)adventures include locking himself in with the skulls.
Five decades of moments
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. • Canadian author Sandra Lake This New Year's marked the 50th anniversary [...]
Of monks, monkeys, and kids
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To [...]
When tourism goes mad
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. • Confucius Last year, Conde [...]
The kisses left behind
When good Americans die, they go to Paris. • Oscar Wilde In the end, Paris will defeat a writer. But [...]
The man who wasn’t there
Emmanuel Mbasha was a proud member of the Chagga tribe and came from the Machame district of Tanzania, at the [...]
One beautiful mess
Everything you see I owe to pasta. • Sophia Loren Italy has been resting on its laurels for countless generations. [...]
Our kid in Moscow
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. • T.S. Eliot I [...]
A very rich man
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. [...]
Rentals in the afterlife
I hope to arrive at my death late, in love and a little drunk. • from the writings of ancient [...]
Land of unlikely smiles
Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune without the words/And never stops /at all [...]
Stop blaming mountains
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Khalil Gibran With the loss of an [...]