For years, I never bought travel insurance. But as I’ve gotten old and creaky, it makes sense to insure against getting sick or hurt far from home. That could certainly...

Well, I made it. Comfortably, as it turned out, but with plenty of stress and some remarkable support.   I left my little Parisian hotel at 5:15 yesterday morning, nipped...

I’m going to be on the east coast in June and am working on an itinerary for a couple of weeks in Italy after that.  It’s a good thing I...

For me, planning a trip is almost as much fun as the actual travel itself.  I enjoy putting together itineraries, coming up with interesting routings for the train portions, looking...