Amsterdam honours Anne Frank with two statues. The first statue is only a few steps away from the Anne Frank Huis and close to the Westerkerk. At the corner of Prinsengracht and Westermarkt stands a bronze statue of Anne Frank. This statue captures Anne’s personality as we know it from her diary....

I’ve been posting some ‘end of 2009′ lists in an assortment of categories, starting with Aerial Views , then Hotels , Other Transport , Music , Cars & Drives , Galleries & Museums , Books  and Animals & Wildlife . Today it’s my photographs of 2009. These are...

Kings Day, or Los Reyes, is much more important in Barcelona, and really, in all of Spain, than Christmas. Sure, people here celebrate the 24th and the 25th and welcome Santa, or Papa Noel as they call him, but the real party is in January. King’s Day is on the 6th of January and is a See original...

If you are looking for flawless Italian food and a winning wine list  along with a stunning Boston city and water  view , head to Restaurant dante located in Cambridge’s Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Restaurant dante is a stylish modern space overlooking the Charles River. Here, youngish...

Only a couple of sleeps and it’s Christmas. Time to fire up those chestnuts, glaze that turkey and concoct the new year’s resolutions we’ll be breaking in a month or two. Every year our Women Travellers branch runs a Secret Santa (also known as Kris Kringle in other parts of the world)....

There have been some great animal encounters in 2009, with brown bears (the big ones, sometimes known as grizzly bears) topping the list. My LPTV Alaska excursion took me to Kodiak Island where you find the biggest of these big bears. You can read about it on my Kodiak blog or see the bear page I wrote...