Legend says that when the Cathedral is finished, the city will sink into the fjord . . . so builders are still working on it.
Legend says that when the Cathedral is finished, the city will sink into the fjord . . . so builders are still working on it.
On any other trip, a dusty duo of twentysomething men hiking along the edge of a remote highway in Spain would hardly have caught my eye. But this is the third day of my trip from Barcelona to the sacred destination of Santiago de Compostela, and I’m on the lookout for authentic pilgrims. I...
It's grape harvest time in central Europe and that means wine festivals and sticky-sweet new wines like burcak. Never heard of it? Head to the Czech village of Mikulov and you'll find plenty of this pumpkin-colored elixir, along with costumed locals and tipsy tourists reveling in the streets during the 40-year-old Pálava Vine Harvest...
In France, September brings "la rentree," a time to put away childish summer things. For flea market aficionados, who will always have Paris, cooler weather means mastering the "puces": indulging in a feast for the eyes, while maintaining a sharp nose for bargains, and a jaundiced ear for tall tales.
There they were, mounded into a perfect pyramid of delicate symmetry. They looked like French macarons, and they were being distributed at Art Basel. A rosy pink inside and out, they were more lovely, more moving, more -- impactful!-- than just about anything else I'd seen
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