Greece
by Reena Ganga (RSS feed) (5 days ago)
Roger Price, Flickr
Disrespect the locals a few too many times and they may decide to shun you from the local enclaves and relegate you to tacky tourist ghettos. Unfortunately, that may be exactly what's in store for visitors headed to the Greek islands.
Locals there say ...
by Anna Brones (RSS feed) (6 days ago)
Labros Hydras/SWNS
Nothing like catching your own food and eating it on vacation. Except for when you find out that your nightly catch is an extremely rare species.
That's what happened recently in Greece. While vacationing in the sunny southern European country, Labros ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
Looking for nude beach recommendations this summer? You probably wouldn't think to consult Xinhua, China's state-controlled press agency, but here comes editor Yang Yi's list of their "Top Ten Sexy Nudist Bathing Spots Around the World." I stumbled across the link to the ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
If you've ever approached a good-looking stranger on a train, or kicked yourself for not doing so, you probably love Richard Linklater's trilogy of films - "Before Sunrise," "Before Sunset" and "Before Midnight" – about a pair of travelers who met on a train bound for ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Alex Robertson Textor
Launched in 1956, Eurovision is a Europe-wide music competition held every May under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Participating countries select their representative songs over the course of the preceding winter and spring. ...
by Alex Robertson Textor (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Travel lists get a lot of grief. I've overheard many fellow travel writers offer the opinion that lists of various sorts are deeply inferior to any and all narrative travel writing. Others have suggested that lists are slowly crowding out real travel writing entirely.
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by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
I arrived on the Greek island of Syros on the night ferry from Samos at 2:30 a.m., bleary-eyed and in need of coffee or a bed, maybe both. My sons, then 2 and 4, were still half-asleep, wondering why the hell we'd hustled them out of their tidy bunks in the middle of the ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Everyone who can afford it should visit Greece this summer. That was the conclusion I reached after reading a heartbreaking story about malnourished children in Greece on the front page of Thursday's New York Times. According to Liz Alderman's piece, malnutrition is a ...
by Reena Ganga (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
For budget travelers, there's never been a better time to visit the Greek capital. Despite being on the Euro, the country's debt crisis has made this popular tourist center dramatically more affordable than the balance of the European Union, making once expensive ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
At the stroke of midnight, fireworks lit up the night sky on the Greek island of Naxos. In a square outside a centuries old church, at least half the island's population gathered to celebrate the occasion. Children ran around and threw firecrackers, senior citizens occupied ...
by Jonathan Kramer (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
The Roussanou Monastery is undeniably beautiful. This Christian Eastern Orthodox monastery is just one of six that are listed as a part of a World Heritage Site in Meteora, Greece. When the monks settled and began the impossible construction of their mountaintop ...
by Mike Sowden (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
As the bus begins to pull away from the bus stop in Chania, I catch the old man's eye again, giving him a thumbs-up through the window. He stares back blankly – then leaps to his feet, waving his arms, pointing, shouting. I raise my hands in an uncomprehending ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
No dogs, no children, no lepers please. It's hard not to feel like an undesirable when a hotel you want to bring your family to says, "Sorry, we don't allow children." In America, and many other countries, it's illegal for hotels and other public establishments to deny ...
by Reena Ganga (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
Greek authorities have been cracking down on illegal immigrants to the country but a number of tourists have been detained as part of the sweep. Some of the travelers have even been beaten so badly by police that they ended up in the hospital, according to the BBC.
Greek ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (7 months ago)
My annual New Year's Eve tradition is to reflect on all the places I visited during the year and plot out where I want to go in the New Year. 2012 was a banner travel year for my family because we put all of our things in storage for five months and traveled extensively in ...
by Jessica Festa (RSS feed) (9 months ago)
When trying to make your travels extra special, the accommodation can really make or break the ambiance of your vacation. Vacation rentals can help with this by allowing you to stay in all types of unique properties, from the bizarre and architecturally innovative to ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
"How do you afford to travel so much?" This is the question I get all the time from disbelieving friends, colleagues and relatives who want to travel more but think they can't afford it. No one's ever come right out and said it, but I know some must wonder if my wife and I ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
America is a paradise for consumers. We can satisfy just about any consumer desire that strikes our fancy, even if it's 3 a.m. on a holiday weekend. The one big exception to this rule is on our beaches, where most of the time we're forced to lug coolers, chairs, umbrellas, ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
The man approaching our parked car had an unkempt beard and was wearing a dirty T-shirt. My first inclination was to try to avoid him, but then I had a sudden change of heart. Earlier that morning, I remarked to my wife that we'd been traveling around the U.S. for more than ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
It only takes a minute to buy a souvenir from someone on a beach but if you stop to find out about that person's life, you might take away more than just the memory you're holding in your hand. In May, while visiting the Greek island of Kos, I took an excursion boat to ...
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