While the temptation of regenerative treatments flow abundantly in the Austrian Alps, visitors look the other way and seek out a new kind of healing.
At age 68, with a voluminous coif in a shade reminiscent of a melting snow, Ike Ikrath is overflowing with energy. So much so that...
In travel, there is foreignness and familiarity. It's like flipping a coin, you get one or the other. The most fascinating part? The sense of wonder and surprise.
Every so often, when the occasion arises, I would find myself traveling to one of my favorite European cities. I never get...
If old dogs can learn new tricks, what are the chances of an aging Asian auntie learning to speak a foreign language?
By the time I reached the part where a woman starts to lie about her age, I decided to return to school. I have moved to Spain with one...
Vienna was Freud's perfect place for his theories on the human psyche. Austria's pulsating capital can also be every traveler's waking dream and art aficionado's nirvana.
Otto Ernst Wiesenthal does not need a palace. He is happy in his thriving cosmos in Vienna’s 7th district, not far from the former...
Throw a cat in the air, it will always land on its feet. But what happens when a cat lands on water? I’m that cat in the water. I’ve realized since moving to Spain, no amount of freestyle will keep me afloat when learning the language. Turns out, it...
Love it or loathe it, Malate is a kind of place that lives up to its legendary reputation and the best way to know it is to embrace it.
Between the patchy phone line and the tropical downpour brought on by an approaching typhoon, I could barely make out what...
What can a landscape teach a traveler? In Andalusia, it’s as simple as living like a local and embracing its transportive landscape.
T o live in southern Spain on the coast of Andalusia - where the occasional sand laden wind blows, is to embrace la calima.It’s been an hour since I...
In Madeira, Quintas are becoming the new cultural touchstones and enduring icons that define Portuguese hospitality.
It was the best of times. I am traveling to Madeira. It was the worst of times. The plane that would take me to Portugal's ethereal island in the Atlantic, was nowhere in sight.It...
Sights, sounds, the self and a schloss -l'Invitation au voyage in the snowy Bavarian Alps.
There are elephants in the room. I am of course referring to the ubiquitous and recurring elephant patterns of my bed’s headboard, as well as on the couvre-lit, the couch and cushions in the room...
Hamburg - part grit and part chic, why this German city of the north keeps on surprising.
It was August, and the world smelled of roses – of dreams – of summer.When Ted Macauley first visited Hamburg in 1970, a decade had passed since the Beatles performed live in August...