While I love traveling with my family, I recently spent 24 solo hours in Valencia, and it was satisfying to tear through the city at my own pace. I saw so much in a short amount of time. Las Fallas, a celebration of Saint Joseph that stretches for most of […]
Don’t have a lot of time to plan a trip to Paris? Use this “cheat sheet,” which includes a mix of shopping, museums, restaurants and bars. It is not easy to pick ten things to eat, drink and see in my favorite city and as all cities do, Paris is […]
No, the food is not always good in Italy. Here are spots to seek out in Rome, Tuscany, Venice and more. People often ask me where to eat in Italy. This isn’t as easy of a question to answer as you might think. While Italy is one of the world’s […]
Talking local ingredients and graffiti with Chef Bertrand Grébaut plus tips for snagging a reservation. While it’s true that many non-French chefs have helped reinvigorate Paris’s dining scene in recent years, there are plenty of native sons who are contributing immensely. I think the neo-bistro Septime, owned and operated by […]
45 minutes north of Coeur d’Alene, this town on Idaho’s largest lake offers equally beautiful scenery and fewer crowds. Each summer, my family spends two weeks in Sandpoint, a town on Lake Pend Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle. I’ve done my fair share of traveling and I think this is one […]
Blue-green water, open-air restaurants, shipwreck-inspired hotels and a shopping scene that you might expect in Soho make Tulum endlessly enticing. Tulum, a bohemian beach town on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is popular for a reason. Beautiful blue-green water, excellent open-air restaurants (many owned by American expats), shipwreck-inspired hotels and a shopping scene that […]