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Educating girls in Solukhumbu, Nepal
The young girl appeared as if in a dream, walking uphill through dense fog. She stopped to watch as our group made its slow...
Return to Kathmandu
My first trip to Nepal was in 1977 when I trekked to the Everest Base Camp. For more than twenty years, I had dreamed...
FOOD & WINE TRAVEL
Autumn: Switzerland’s best time for food travel?
Switzerland is a marvelous year-round destination, but for many, autumn is THE season. Summer crowds are gone, ski season is not yet upon us,...
Celebrating street food in Basel, Switzerland
With October comes what travel planners call the shoulder season, a concept that applies equally to food-oriented festivals. Soon we'll have the late-autumn fairs,...
AT HOME IN PORTUGAL
Anita’s Feast celebrates ten years
Anita’s Feast began around a table with our neighbors in Basel, Switzerland, as we unpacked the Swiss ritual of raclette to a background of...
Tasting the Colheitas of Graham’s
"Isn't that cool?!" exclaimed our host, raising a goblet of amber-hued liquid and gesturing with it to the distant corners of Palacio do Bolsa's...
CULTURE
The Swiss Chocolate Train, on Traveling With Sweeney
Chocolate is synonymous with Switzerland, as are cheese and a wonderful train system. What better way to combine a love of these things, than...
Barcelona’s curvaceous Casa Milà turns 100
One hundred years ago this week, the doors of Casa Milà, one of Antoni Gaudí's most audacious works, opened on Passeig de Gràcia in...
