Travel

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...

Can I get a Real ID regardless of where I live?Real ID-compliant licenses and identification cards are now being issued in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and...

The rain soon stopped and I pulled over to open the sunroof just as my iPhone’s shuffle setting landed on Patty Griffin singing “Heavenly Day.” The newly showered flora was aromatic and,...

“Violets are good in my book,” affirmed Anna Matzinger, who makes wine along with her husband, Michael Davies, under the label Matzinger Davies Wine Company in McMinnville, Ore., about 40 miles southwest...

Within hours of arriving in Coyoacán — a leafy, tranquil, beautiful neighborhood in the southwest part of Mexico City — I was searching the internet for long-term rentals in the area. It...