Travel

Even before I became a parent, I knew how terrible traveling with toddlers could be. “It stops being a vacation and becomes a trip,” a friend said after returning from her first...

Travel this winter, like pretty much everything else, is not expected to be a bargain. While rates for hotels and flights tend to drop after the holiday highs, resilient demand for travel...

The day of my record attempt, Orfield crossed the room’s threshold, and his voice immediately sounded far away, as the wedges absorbed his sound waves. After I followed him inside, the sound...

Even when airports are served by multiple airlines, “when you drill down into the route level there may be only one choice,” said Mr. Samson, and offered the example of Flint. Allegiant...

A Four-Bedroom Chalet Near Lake Geneva$4.1 MILLION (3.98 MILLION EUROS)This four-bedroom chalet is perched on the brow of a hill in Samoëns, a town in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeast France, bordering...

Others who spent time in the city include Tennessee Williams, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Juan Goytisolo. Some years ago, Mohamed Choukri wrote three short...

From the top of the great pyramid of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in the southern Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, you can see all the way to Guatemala. The jungle stretches...

Unlike the rest of Ireland that’s known for being green, Connemara’s landscape is characteristic for its myriad hues including oranges, purples, grays and browns, said Sinead O’Sullivan, the co-owner of the Galway-based...

Tabales now likened the poet-emir al-Mu‘tamid (1069-91) to Rome’s Caesar. During his reign, the river Guadalquivir (from al-wadi al-kabir, “the great river”) had a different position than it does today, making it...

A Six-Bedroom L-Shaped House in Eastern Spain$1.97 MILLION (1.963 MILLION EUROS)With Montgó mountain as its backdrop, this six-bedroom, five-bath house sits on 4.9 landscaped acres in the Montgó-Ermita section of Jávea, a...