Museums: Summer 2018
Museums are among the most beloved and trusted places worldwide, and frequently on everyone’s travel itinerary. And they are everywhere – cities, islands, deserts, the ocean’s edge. Museums are booming. […]
Category Archives: Europe
Philadelphia Greens Itself: Vibrant Public Space
Parks are blooming all over Philadelphia, but one, in particular, has travelers, tourists, and residents rejoicing: The Rail Park –one of the next generation of greenways popping up around the […]
French Bakeries: Heading for Extinction?
Imaginez! Some 1200 boulangeries close down every year in France — leaving small towns, city neighborhoods and millions of tourists without their daily baguettes. Even so, 12 million people daily […]
Goldman Environmental Prize Winners 2018
“…for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.” The Goldman Environmental Prize — 29 years, 188 recipients, 87 countries — lauds […]
World’s “Happiest” Countries
The world’s happiest countries are bright and sunny, tropical and temperate. Right ? Wrong! Finland tops the list of the “happiest” in the 2018 World Happiness Report, which ranks 156 […]
Museum Showcase 2018
The world’s true wealth resides in museums, parks and sites – from art treasures to rare animal species to ancient bones. We preserve the rare and the quotidian to better […]
Cities: Updates on New Orleans, Jakarta, Venice, Mexico City & more
Fake Paris Real Paris—and more When you’re in China, Europe is closer than you think.We know the Chinese love Paris – check out the high couture boutiques in the famed […]
Book World Part I 2012-2017
In the world of books, there are years that yield harvests of brilliant writing ( as well as photography and illustration) shaped into works that inform, touch and inspire us. […]
Cities: Hamburg, Venice, Rotterdam, Reykjavik & More
Cities with water are sizzling! Tourism, commerce and 24/7 lifestyle flourish in beautiful, watery settings. Some places are experiencing both sides of the coin–runaway success and inadequate resources to handle […]
On the Brink of Extinction (Coming Up)
Do these numbers mean anything to you? 30, 45, 60, 200, 7100 Can you match up any of the numbers to critically endangered species? These are animals that may not […]
