Category: Antonia projects
As always, this week in November, with its turkeys, cranberry sauce, and expressions of thanks has Americans thinking not just of food or Christmas shopping, but of the little …
I was so inspired by Alison’s essay yesterday on First Travel Memories that I spent last night’s free time thinking of all the travel journals I’ve started and discarded, …
(A version of this essay first appeared in Go World Travel.) Uluru, or Ayers Rock, as non-Aboriginal Australians call it, sticks out of the near flat of the desert, …
. Sometimes you stumble across information on the Internet that can knock your socks off or scare the pants off you — until, that is, you cool off and …
More than once I have found myself in a foreign place with the wrong book. I’ll have brought History of the Arab Peoples to Russia, or an Emma Lathen …
On October 3rd, 6000 people turned out to commemorate the opening of a multi-million-dollar civic project the scope of which probably hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression. Of …
2009 marks the year when the Hudson River Valley celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic journey up the Hudson River. This voyage was arguably the most important …
The hills of Lisbon, stuttering with red-tiled roofs and church bells, swept down to an expansive estuary that came as a surprise when I walked out of the older …
This is a photo of my favorite sight in St. Petersburg. It’s a map on the wall of the Muskovsky Train Station (where you catch trains that go to …
James Boobar admits that this is a tour you will not find in any conventional guidebook, not the way he does it. The Dostoevsky Walk: the descent-via-ascent into the …
For most of my childhood, Leningrad was, in my imagination, the city of my mother. It was she who told the stories, who described the romance of the gray …
If you took a poll, travel by train would probably be the single most popular form of transit. Every famous travel writer in the world has waxed lyrical about …