Deep discounts on luxur...

Filed under: Travel Deals Have you always wanted to go on safari in Kenya , tour the colorful markets and Mughal palaces of India ‘s Golden Triangle, or explore the mysterious Incan settlements of Peru and do so in style? Beginning on Cyber Monday , Abercrombie & Kent will...

One luxury and two budg...

Filed under: Europe , Netherlands , Hotels and Accommodations , Budget Travel , Luxury Travel Visitors to Amsterdam are spoiled for choice when it comes to hotels. From flea-bitten junky flophouses all the way up to five-star luxury accommodation, hotels in Amsterdam offer something for...

Kids travel gift: Junio...

Filed under: Europe , North America , France , Germany , Netherlands , United Kingdom , United States Last year we reported on Italian designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso’s crumpled city maps , a delightful series of maps made out of tough waterproof material. Pizzolorusso’s maps...

Amsterdam’s Tortu...

Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , Netherlands Like many travelers, I have a soft spot in my heart for tourist traps. Whether it’s the politically incorrect cheesiness of South of the Border or the shabby weirdness of The Thing , nothing brings a smile to my face better...

Down-home Dutch cooking...

Filed under: Food and Drink , Europe , Netherlands Dutch cooking isn’t one of Europe’s famous cuisines. Yet while it can’t compete on the world stage with Italian or Spanish cuisine, Dutch cooking can been really good and travelers to The Netherlands shouldn’t...

Bad marketing: don̵...

Filed under: Food and Drink , Photos , Europe , Spain I spotted this butcher shop sign near my new home in Santander in northern Spain . What’s wrong with this picture? Yeah, the “Equine butcher shop” is using a horse to advertise its product! Now I’m going to...

Is BKG the most charmin...

Filed under: North America , United States Hectic. Annoying. Uncomfortable. These are just a few words that normally come to mind when talking about airports. An airport can be scenic (like Wyoming’s Jackson Hole ) or design saavy (like Amsterdam’s Schiphol ), but rarely do...

Preserved human flesh a...

Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , Netherlands This is exactly what it looks like–the preserved human flesh of a tattooed man. Judging from the style and subject, I’d say it’s from a nineteenth century American sailor. I spotted it sitting on...

Don’t Give Up Yet on ...

I’ve done a number of radio interviews (hi KTRH in Houston!) in the past couple of weeks about whether it’s too late to get a good fare or use miles for your Thanksgiving trip. (We’ll set aside for a moment the question of why I seem to only do radio interviews.) The...

Roundtrip Fares to Dubl...

We haven’t seen any non-mistake, non-fuel dump cheap airfares to Europe in quite some time, so I thought it was noteworthy that you can hop a Continental Airlines flight from New York to Dublin and Shannon, Ireland, for $380 round trip (Shannon may be a couple of dollars less)....