Spired churches , gleaming towers, and lots of red brick. Boston is an architecturally rich city in the most traditional sense. The iconic image of the 1877 H.H. Richardson designed  Trinity Church (206 Clarendon St., Boston)(Map) reflected in  the 1976  I.M. Pei-designed John Hancock Tower (200...

A new metro line connecting the north of Amsterdam to the rest of the city seemed such a good idea. In 1996, the city council approved an €800 million budget, by 2002 the line was expected to cost €1.4 million and would be up and running in 2011. The new route is 9.8 km long and Original post:  Bijenkorf...

Boston has a rich African-American history. The first Africans arrived in Boston as slaves soon after the city was founded in the 1630’s. By the end  of the American Revolution, Boston was home to more free blacks than slaves. And just prior to the Civil War, the north side of Boston’s Beacon...

It’s not surprising that  many of the area’s  most daring and experimental theatre productions are mounted in  Cambridge.  The American Repertory Theatre (64 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300)(Map) produces some of the city’s edgiest shows- both new plays and progressive adaptations...

Boston has often  been called ” a city of neighborhoods.” Each neighborhood has fairly distinct boundaries and  its own character and appeal . To help you get acquainted with the city, the following primer of the city’s neighborhoods will  give you a fix on Boston’s major sightseeing...

I visited the country in 2008 and despite the many problems the Caribbean nation faced I had an extraordinarily interesting time there and never felt unsafe.  Even when I had to find a ride back to my hotel in Port-au-Prince on the back of a motorcycle taxi in the early hours of one morning. I’d...