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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
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Founded after World War I, the City of Light's English-language library has long been a haven for expats, including Hemingway
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How to Tour Jane Austen’s English Countryside
Follow in the footsteps of Mr. Darcy and the Bennet sisters and take in the manors and gardens of rural England
January 25, 2013
| By Nina Fedrizzi
For years, the KGB secretly spied on visitors to the Hotel Viru in Estonia. A new museum reveals the fascinating time capsule and all the secrets within
April 09, 2013
| By Andrew Curry
Coffee is black and bitter—but global travelers find a surprisingly wide range of forms of the world's favorite hot beverage
March 15, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
It may get cold, but the trolls, bobsleds, skiing, Scandinavian delicacies and (heated) art museums make it all worthwhile
February 25, 2013
| By Laura Kiniry
In a record-breaking dive, the head of the Russian Geographical Society sunk to the bottom of Lake Labynkyr in Siberia, one of the coldest lakes in the world
February 04, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
On January 31, France's minister of women's rights made if officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing pants in Paris
February 05, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
Home to the naturalist for 40 years, the estate near London was always evolving
February 2013
| By Rebecca Stott
About a dozen Spanish streams support native runs of Atlantic salmon, but anglers are deeply divided about how to fish for them
June 21, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
This December the French town of Lens will be welcoming a new branch museum of the Louvre
July 05, 2012
| By Susan Spano
From 1609 to 1620, many of the Pilgrims who came to America lived in the Netherlands
November 21, 2012
| By Colin Schultz
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
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
We wondered if the cave's tenants cooked inside or out, if they peered down at the valley and if they wrapped all glassware and metal in cloth to prevent reflective giveaways to the Nazis below
May 22, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
The construction of a medieval fortress in France is answering important questions about 13th-century building techniques
May 21, 2012
| By Susan Spano
Forget Chicago deep-dish, Roman pizza bianca and Domino's. For the best, most authentic pizza, go to Napoli
May 18, 2012
| By Susan Spano
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
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
Founded after World War I, the City of Light's English-language library has long been a haven for expats, including Hemingway
March 25, 2012
| By Susan Spano
The nation says au revoir to the franc and to "mademoiselle" and bonjour
to a proposed new theme park—Napoleonland
April 19, 2012
| By Susan Spano
The future is looking brighter for the cliffside Italian villages ravaged by last fall's rains
April 11, 2012
| By Susan Spano
The Mysteries of the Dead Christ procession begins at Terra Murata on the island of Procida
April 06, 2012
| By Susan Spano
On the Italian island, marzipan figures—pears, plums, Paschal lambs—are a favorite holiday treat
April 05, 2012
| By Susan Spano
The personal memoir of history's most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin
April 2012
| By Tony Perrottet
Give Paris its due, but the place has at least its share of unromantic features
February 10, 2012
| By Susan Spano
An organic farming network gave my niece the opportunity. Then she gave me the nectar of the gods
January 06, 2012
| By Susan Spano
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