Category Archives: TRAVEL

Tough Life: A Week in the Yucatan

Posted on May 17, 2017 by

LAST MONTH, I SNUCK IN ANOTHER VACATION, this one a weeklong mother-daughter event. Destination: Tulum, Mexico, on the Caribbean edge of the Yucatan peninsula, a place I’d first heard of years ago when it was a laid-back beach town known … Continue reading →

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London: Summing Up

Posted on March 23, 2017 by

IN THE PAST WEEK, I’ve been all around London, from the mews of Mayfair to the thrift shops of Dalston, from the obsessively planted Avenue Gardens of Regents Park to the tiny back gardens of friends in Islington, from David … Continue reading →

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Two Days is Not Enough for Enchanting Edinburgh

Posted on March 19, 2017 by

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, dramatic and unspoiled, is now among my favorite cities, one to which I would gladly return. Windy but not cold during my 36-hour visit, it has more greenery and longer days than I imagined possible in mid-March. Edinburgh … Continue reading →

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Old York, Old York

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

LONDON HAS ENOUGH 17th, 18th and 19th century houses to keep an old-house aficionado busy for years. But because the Great Fire of 1666 swept away nearly the whole of the city, it’s lacking in domestic architecture that predates the … Continue reading →

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 The British Museum, Housing the World’s Treasures for Us All

Posted on March 16, 2017 by

  LONDONERS LOVE THEIR INFREQUENT SUNSHINE, as I learned the other day on the way to the British Museum. From my top-deck bus seat, I saw them out in force, basking in any available square of green, like Gray’s Inn Field, … Continue reading →

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London: Victorian Holland Park, Preserved in Amber

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD, another historic house museum…in yesterday’s drizzle I took the Tube to Holland Park, en route to 18 Stafford Terrace, the perfectly preserved upper-middle class home of Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his family. The Sambournes moved … Continue reading →

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London: Sunday Sail to Greenwich

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

MUCH IS NEW in London since I was last here a decade ago, development spurred largely by the 2012 London Olympics. Not least of the improvements are the new Overground train service, which makes access to central London from some … Continue reading →

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