“I like this thing we’re doing,” Sam said, gazing at me with big green eyes as we sipped Aperol spritzes in a Venetian bar in the city’s Sant’Elena neighborhood. “Meeting in a new country every…

An icy wind whistles in my ears as I furiously pedal my bicycle to reach a remote pier in the Greek village of Edipsos before sunset. Abandoning my bike under a fig tree, I trip…

The fortuneteller in Yangon, the Southeast-Asian metropolis formerly known as Rangoon, announced my future as if we were on a game show and I had just won a BRAND NEW CAR! “Next year,” he said,…

Dear Travel, Your alluring vistas call from afar, bringing whispers of lessons that fill my heart and mind. I have been your faithful student for some time, learning to embrace adventure and spontaneity, patience and…

I’m wondering if it would be impolite to lick my fingers as I chow down on a perfect bite of toasted brown bread lathered in creamy radicchio and Parmesan, topped with a mound of rosemary-roasted…

A close friend recently told me of her trip to Tokyo, during which she got lost outside a train station while looking for a restaurant she wanted to check out with her sister. It’s easy…

We all have that place we like to go each summer, somewhere we can kick back and relax. When I was growing up, my family started the tradition of visiting the Canadian Thousand Islands, which…

Coachella Valley doesn’t immediately spring to mind with thinking of Palm Springs attractions for kids. (Photos: Edmund Vallance) In the air-conditioned entrance hall of a Palm Desert pasta joint, my son, Kasper, 6, is pointing…