Tag Archives: Trips
Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin
THE half-dozen cocktail tables on the sidewalk by Grogans Pub were mobbed with after-work, pint-packing patrons, but my companion that evening, the American actor Harris Yulin, promised that the seats were worth the wait. “I love the gloaming in Ireland,” Mr. Yulin said, and indeed, once we snagged a spot, the long summer twilight of [...]
Vineyard Hopping, in Maryland?
ON a recent warm summer evening, well over a thousand people packed the lawns at Boordy Vineyards in Hydes, Md. Families tucked into picnics, toddlers ran freely, and couples and singles danced on the makeshift floor to a swing band pumping out oldies. But the main reason for the crowds was the wine.
Boordy, situated on [...]
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 [...]