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FOOD & WINE TRAVEL
Culinary walks with Taste Porto Food Tours
Touring a new city on foot always brings the place into focus, and a good food tour adds an element I especially enjoy. A...
Wild honey of Fez, Morocco
One of my requisite stops upon returning to Fez is “the honey souk”, Fondouk Kaat Smen, set back behind a display of carpets on...
REMEMBERING ITALY
Discovering Old Milan with Walks of Italy
The jaw-dropping splendor of the Duomo's façade is perhaps the most iconic view of Milan, but it's not the only memorable one. When my...
Siena—art on the walls and underfoot
Siena is a city of art and architecture in a country replete with both. Thanks to a multi-site ticket, I spent the better part...
CULTURE
Frankfurt, Germany: a #NoFilter glimpse
Frankfurt, Germany, mostly destroyed in World War II, has been rebuilt with vigor and imagination, and is now a thriving center of commerce and...
Basel, Switzerland–on Cathedral Hill
Basel's ancient heart brings out my inner historian. The Old Town is intact and compact, draped across three sentinel hills and along both sides...
