Travel Briefs

A website providing information on how to make your next trip more environmentally friendly — by keeping carbon emissions from motorized transport to a minimum — greentraveller.co.uk lists over 80 ferry journeys passengers can take between the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe.

Select from a drop-down menu of ferry routes and find public transport options to/from the ports; ferry fares; sample itineraries, and travel times as well as direct links to booking tickets online. Sample routes include Edinburgh-Belfast (from £29 [$39] one way), London-Dublin (from £27 one way) and Dover-...

“Dwelling in the Fu-ch’un Mountains,” a 14th-century, 22½-foot-long and one-foot-tall Chinese scroll painting, was the magnum opus of Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang.

Almost 200 years after the artist’s death, the scroll’s owner, feeling his death imminent, decided he would “take it with him” and began to burn the scroll. The man’s nephew saved it, but it was torn in two. The two pieces have been exhibited separately, the left side in Taiwan’s National Palace Museum and the shorter, right side in Beijing, China, at the Zhejiang Museum.

In the exhibit “Landscape Reunified...

In 1610, artist Peter Paul Rubens rebuilt to his own design a residence in Antwerp, Belgium. Now a museum, Rubenshuis (Wapper 9-11, Antwerp; phone +32 3 201 15 55) will host “Palazzo Rubens — The Master as an Architect,” an exhibit on his architectural accomplishments, Sept. 10-Dec. 11, 2011.

Among some 50 items will be architectural prints and writings and works by Michelangelo, Guilio Romano, Van Dyck and Jordaens. €8-€10 ($11-$14); free on last Wednesday of the month.