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Recreation

Leisure activities, including sports, travel, entertainment and hobbies
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Prospero’s Island in the South Pacific

Was it Bermuda—or the dreamy French Polynesian island of Huahine—that inspired the setting for Shakespeare's The Tempest?
June 11, 2012 | By Susan Spano

Jaipur via The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

A delightful new film takes viewers to India’s picturesque western state of Rajasthan
June 07, 2012 | By Susan Spano

On the Cheese Trail in the Pyrenees

Make a fuss in the road and stomp your feet, and someone will appear. Spit out some gibberish about “fromage a vendre,” and that should do it. You'll get your cheese
June 07, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

The Family that Never Quits Pedaling

I thought cycling with a sack of lentils, a laptop and a bottle of wine was hard. Then I met a pair of Dutch cyclists on tour with a grown dog, a puppy---and a baby
June 05, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Summer Vacation on Campus

Looking for unique, fun, inexpensive lodging? Stay in a university dorm
June 04, 2012 | By Susan Spano

Julia Child

Julia Child's Recipe for a Thoroughly Modern Marriage

Food writer Ruth Reichl looks at the impact of the famous chef's partnership with her husband Paul
June 2012 | By Ruth Reichl

Where Lance Remains the King

Among the peaks, cirques and summits of the French Pyrenees, the greeting call to an American on a bike may always be "Armstrong!"
May 31, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Travelers’ Tales in Utah’s Canyonlands

The trail is rough and hard to follow, marked chiefly by cairns; water is intermittent; and if something bad happens help is not at hand
May 30, 2012 | By Susan Spano

Sleep Like a Pauper, Eat Like a King

Between grocery stores, wine shops, artisan bakeries and farm stands, I regain each calorie I burn in style and taste
May 29, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Tasting France’s Finest Wines

Sauternes is a cute little village near Bordeaux that would likely have been just another manure-splattered cow town if dumb luck, microclimatology and royal wineries had not showered the region in fortunes
May 24, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Take a Vacation on Volvo

Once you get your car you’re free to hit the road along the west coast of Sweden with its fishing villages, traditional folkways and islands
May 23, 2012 | By Susan Spano

Five Quintessential Cajun Foods

If you've only had the pleasure of eating a bowl of gumbo, queue up some Beausoleil and prepare some of these specialties
May 22, 2012 | By Jesse Rhodes

Free Beer in the Dordogne Valley: Come and Find It!

These beers should last for several hot summers and cold winters. Where exactly are they hidden? Here are the directions
May 18, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Mark Kurlansky on the Cultural Importance of Salt

Salt, it may be useful to know, cures a zombie
May 17, 2012 | By Jesse Rhodes

The Great Books and Movies to Read and Watch Before Visiting India

A list of some of the best books and films about the subcontinent to take in before you go.
May 16, 2012 | By Susan Spano

Truffle Trouble in Europe: The Invader Without Flavor

If it looks like a black truffle, and if it cost you $1,500 a pound like a black truffle---it may actually be a worthless Chinese truffle
May 15, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Jobs of the Future: How Accurate Were the Soothsayers of 1982 At Predicting Today’s Top Careers?

College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
May 15, 2012 | By Matt Novak

Off the Road in the South of France

Ernest Hemingway popularized the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Paris, but he missed out every day he wasn't walking through the forested hills of Périgord
May 11, 2012 | By Alastair Bland

Unorthodox Foods for Mother’s Day

I dug some more into how food companies are positioning their products for this time of year, and some of my findings were, well, unconventional
May 10, 2012 | By Jesse Rhodes

Danger and Romance from HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn”

A new made-for-television movie airing May 28 recounts the stormy love affair between the writer and the war correspondent
May 09, 2012 | By Susan Spano


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