This is the second installment of Ed Boitano’s series on Pilgrimages. In the inaugural installment, Pilgrimages: Places I’ll Remember, Boitano covered Dylan Thomas – Laugharne, Wales, Antoni Gaudí – Barcelona, Catalonia, Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky – Coyoacán, Mexico and The Barbary Apes – Gibraltar. Now quarantined at home due to the coronavirus, Boitano is doing a lot of remembering these days.
Like a war correspondent, The Palladian Traveler files his last dispatch in this series from a platform overlooking a re-creation of the Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleanic Wars that signaled the beginning of the end for Emperor Napolean I.
Seasoned travelers all have their own personal methods for packing, rituals for pre-trip routines, and even ways to use time efficiently while airborne on a long flight. Here are some of my favorite gizmos and gadgets for the road… and this assumes that soon, after COVID-19 has burned itself out, that we will all be back on the road again. Stay safe out there!
Our doctor's office called to let my wife know that the results from her blood tests came back and she was just fine. That didn't suit my wife.
A Mexican man who spoke no English went into a department store to buy socks. He found his way to the menswear department where a young lady offered to help him.
The Palladian Traveler heads far outside the city limits of Moscow to reach the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church and pays his respects at a cemetery where Russian history sleeps as he files his penultimate dispatch in the Easy Pace Russia series.
T-Boy Society of Film & Music's collection of the funniest, most heartfelt and damnedest moments in last year’s movies.
Despite the government warnings, cruise lines are continuing with sailings. How can passengers navigate the confusion?... It’s an open secret that airplanes, and airports, are some of the germiest places you visit. Here are the 8 top things you need to disinfect every time you fly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the State Department are urging Americans to avoid cruise ships as the coronavirus continues to spread, but most sailings are continuing as scheduled, leaving travelers unsure of whether to follow the government’s guidance or continue with their plans.
Max von Sydow the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal has passed away. He was 90 years old.