Roughly the size of Massachusetts, Wales offers a bountiful larder of farm and sea with more than 80% of the land given over to agriculture and another 12% to woodland. With less than 3 million inhabitants, this is a country where sheep outnumber people by a ratio of four to one. … Read More
For the better part of its nearly 80-year history, Palm Springs has been a fashionable desert resort: a retreat and a refuge, as acclaimed for its relaxed lifestyle as for its natural beauty. An oasis of modernist architecture, Palm Springs … Read More
For those Game of Thrones fans who glimpse Caernarfon for the first time, “Winter is coming” might be the first words from their mouths. Perhaps the most famous of Wales’s 641 castles, Caernarfon was built in 1283 within the confines of … Read More
A country house from the early 18th century, Erddig in Wrexham offers an “Upstairs, Downstairs” experience to visitors who wander the 1,200-acre estate of a gentry family named Yorke who remained in residence for over 250 years. Alas, by the … Read More
With gleaming steam engines and summer coaches from the 1920s, as well as kitchen carriages and a restored 1894 carriage, the Welsh Highland Railway is the longest heritage rail line in Britain. From the castle at Caernarfon, the railway traverses … Read More
Arriving in the Sonoran Desert in 1928, Wisconsin-born architect Frank Lloyd Wright contended that there was “nothing more inspiring to an architect…than pure Arizona desert.” … Read More
“The most beautiful city in the world,” claims the heroine of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s hauntingly romantic novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a verdict hard to dispute should you find yourself at dawn on the Charles Bridge. … Read More
If you’re on your way to the San Juan Islands, consider an overnight at Seattle’s beautifully restored Mayflower Park Hotel, one of the last locally-owned independent hotels in a city dominated by worldwide chains. … Read More
