Tag Archives: Holidays
An Oasis Off London’s Beaten Path
WITH its picnic tables and chipped folding chairs, Towpath feels as if it should be in a shack on the beach, not on the ground floor of a converted factory in East London.
Wine is served in juice glasses, and food is limited to bar snacks like almonds or radishes served with anchovies. During a recent [...]
As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons
IN 1932, when the Great Depression was getting its second wind, a New York-based wire editor for the Associated Press published a novel about the agricultural shows he remembered from his childhood in a middle-of-nowhere Iowa town that doesn’t even exist anymore.
Phil Stong’s “State Fair” was a smashing success. Bleaker than the 1945 Rodgers & [...]
Advice on Using Credit Cards While Traveling Abroad
I WAS driving to the Los Angeles airport in April when apparently I did something suspicious: I stopped at a gas station and filled up the tank.
By the time I returned the rental car and got to my gate, I had a fraud alert message from my credit card company, U.S. Bank. Since I don’t [...]
A Helping of Mexican Culture (Between Meals)
National parks, check. Ruins, check. Beaches, check. Mountains, check. Waterfalls, jungle cruise, homestays, check. Eating insects, check.
In my Latin American adventure, I’d covered a lot of ground. But with one week to go before I crossed into Texas, though, there was a gap: culture. Not culture as in, “Why do you guys have dinner so [...]