Spend some Arabian days and nights exploring the culture and coastal beauty of the Gulf Culture, Qatar With its long, elegant corniche bristling with futuristic skyscrapers, Doha – the capital of Qatar – has enjoyed a transformational decade. The most exciting new development is the spectacular Museum of Islamic… Read More
Let’s be honest. What’s a holiday without a bit of local shopping. Browsing the markets, looking out for souvenirs, even buying necessities just to find out which brands such and such country has and how the locals do things is fun and educational at the same time. Who can… Read More
Anytime is tea time for Lisa Boalt Richardson . The author of the award-winning Tea with a Twist was one of the first 15 people in the world to graduate from the Specialty Tea Institute in 2008 as a certified tea specialist . Her new book, The World in… Read More
Besom (birch branches tied together) / Photo: Carlo Alcos When in Rome , right? David Francois talks about his banya experience in St. Petersburg. Editor’s note: One of the fields when you fill out your Matador profile is “I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when…” The… Read More
From stories of snakebite and black on the south Wales coast to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll at university in Aberystwyth, Rachel Trevise selects the best of the new guard of Welsh writers – plus a couple of golden oldies, for good measure Welsh author Rachel Trezise won the inaugural… Read More
The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman Broadway Books, $24.95 Rating: 4 Stars Unsettled by Spirit airlines new $40 carry-on fee? After reading Carl Hoffman’s The Lunatic Express, you might change your mind. In this rollicking travel memoir, Hoffman decides, on the heels of a mid-life crisis, to travel around… Read More
A Eurolines bus. Photo by sludgegulper. By Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries— Last month’s air travel mayhem across much of northern and central Europe prompted many travelers to rediscover long-distance bus travel. Networks such as those managed by Deutsche Touring and Eurolines suddenly found their services much in demand.… Read More
UpTake on Pie Ranch My calendar now has every third Saturday of the month blocked out for volunteer farm day, pot luck and barn dance at Pie Ranch . I can get my dirt under my finger nails and do-si-so all in one day. Git on yer boots and… Read More
Do you look for the weird when you travel? Gabriela Garcia uncovered some of the world’s most unusual museums. Don’t get me wrong–I love the Louvre in Paris and the Museum of Natural History in New York as much as the next person. But there’s a certain exhilaration that… Read More
It would work as a tool to teach the children of the community about how to preserve what it’s been so hard to get, our land. The museum will expose the history and develop of the area, through the eyes of those founders who worked hard to make sure… Read More