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“The Color of Light,” my play about Henri Matisse - The chapel that Henri Matisse designed in Vence is a must-see for pretty much everyone visiting the South of France. It’s a painless expedition from Nice: a pleasant half-hour drive
100 Journeys for the Spirit - Reading “100 Journeys for the Spirit ” a brisk (225 pages) photograph-driven guide with short essays by Pico Iyer, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Theroux and a few other writers, I was forced
Atlas of Remote Islands (Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will) - No worries that "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will" will be showing up on gift lists. Though published by Penguin, the
Audrey Hepburn said, “Paris is always a good idea.” So…. - Here's one version of a perfect day in Paris: Have breakfast at the Marly. Be moved by a silent stroll through the "Deportation" memorial to the 200,000 French Jews taken
Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia - In 1948, John Steinbeck and photographer Robert Capa traveled across Russia. "In the papers every day there were thousands of words about Russia --- what Stalin was thinking about, the
City Secrets: New York City - Back when the Child was so young I collected her every afternoon at school, I often used to run into foreign couples at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 94th
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman - The dollar shows no signs of getting off its sickbed. That means a cafe creme can cost $7 in Paris. In London, the subway will set you back $4. I see a
Half An Hour From Paris: 10 Secret Daytrips by Train - It may not strike first-time visitors to Paris, but one of the world’s most civilized cities is also a theme park. Parisland, I call it. And not with derision. For
Hidden New York - Every week, it seems, someone writes from the country beyond the Hudson River to announce a visit to New York. “What shall I do?” you ask.
In the Spirit of New Orleans - I was high on New Orleans when I finished Debra Shriver’s book, so I logged on to JetBlue and checked the fare from New York to New Orleans. Would you believe
Italianissimo: The Quintessential Guide to What Italians Do Best - I can remember traveling to Italy when the dollar was strong and the lira was downtrodden. Trading dollars for lira was quite the jolly experience --- at the currency exchange
Paris Quiz: How Well Do You Know Paris? - Dominique Lesbros annoys me. I’ve been to Paris a gazillion times, lived there for months, get around without a map. I not only have favorite restaurants, I have favorite dishes at
Paris: A Reading List - Mission to Paris The first paragraph of Alan Furst’s novel should convince you: In Paris, the evenings of September are sometimes warm, excessively gentle, and, in the magic particular to that city,
Paris: Made by Hand: 50 Shops Where Decorators and Stylists Source the Chic & Unique - Unless you shopped at high-end boutiques and specialty stores in a handful of large American cities, it used to be that you had to go to Paris to
Parisian Hideaways: Exquisite Rooms in Enchanting Hotels - Once you have a kid, you make overnight flights less often. And when you do make them, your destination is not some cushy hotel, it’s an apartment --- for less
Parisians’ Paris - We have all read a zillion guidebooks directing us to the best stuff, the special stuff, even the secret stuff in Paris, and if we’re jaded, we can hardly be
Peter Mayle: My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now - Peter Mayle toiled for decades in advertising, beginning as a copywriter and finishing thirteen years later as a creative director ("I think I was also a vice president, but I
Quiet Corners of Paris - For many travelers, Paris is Parisland. Here's the Eiffel Tower. Let's take a boat ride along the Seine. Ah, the Champs Elysees. Five museums on the list ---
Quiet Corners of Rome - The book doesn’t exist, but on the basis of the title I cooked up, it’s the shortest book ever written. "Feminism in Sicily." "Quiet Corners of Rome” might be a
