The water is too chilly for swimming and the ice cream shops are closed, but there are plenty of reasons to visit Nantucket, with foliage at its peak, in the fall.
Danni Petti
The water is too chilly for swimming and the ice cream shops are closed, but there are plenty of reasons to visit Nantucket, with foliage at its peak, in the fall.
Why does Detroit get such a bad rap? I traveled to the Motor City the first weekend in May and my opinion remains the same – it’s a great place.
When traveling abroad, my wife, Nina, and I prefer to explore new terrain on foot. On a visit to the wine country in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy last summer, we left our rented car behind, strapped on light knapsacks, and set off into the vineyards.
Time was when I enjoyed reading about Henry VIII, who really did more than bed and behead Tudor women in his long reign. But Hilary Mantel, winner of two Booker prizes for her back-to-back blockbuster novels, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” gave me a whole new perspective.
If you are looking for excitement in a European vacation, you can find more than enough on the streets of places like Athens, Madrid, and Moscow these days. However, seeking an interesting but more risk-free destination, we headed for Berlin at the start of a recent trip to Germany.
My husband and I really had to pat ourselves on the back. Our adult children actually wanted to go away with us. We must have done something right if they were willing to tolerate us longer than the ten minutes it takes to wolf down a family dinner.
I had always wanted to visit the Florida Keys. I wondered why these islands, which run south in a 120-mile chain from the tip of Florida, lie in such a perfect curve; and why they have inspired such loyalty in people like Ernest Hemingway.
Well, here we are again, off to Zanzibar. The trouble is, you can’t easily get there from here. After seven hours to London, three and a half hours in Heathrow, eight and a half hours to Nairobi, two hours sleep in a Nairobi hotel, and a two-hour puddle-jumper, you arrive in Zanzibar.
It is one of Paris’ best-kept secrets. During a visit last summer, my wife, Nina, and I stumbled upon the Promenade Plantée, a “planted walk” built on an abandoned 19th century elevated railroad track.
For spring break, the Dogan family was privileged to join three other Rye families on a service trip to an orphanage near Cusco, Peru. Ours was the inaugural voyage for Rye Middle School teacher Craig Dreves’ newly founded travel company, VolunTravel Inc. (www.voluntravel.com), which organizes service trips to developing countries for both students and families.
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