Exploring the churches, cuisine and culture of Romania and Moldova, plus an eye-opening independence-day celebration
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Food & Wine
Options for travelers with mobility issues
One of my hobbies is answering questions in ITN’s “Person to Person” column. I usually average one each month, enjoying sharing my intel even for an audience of one or two travelers, but my answer to a recent info request — about traveling with limited mobility (Nov. ’17, pg. 60) — covered a lot of ground, and I thought it might interest many travelers in the senior category.
Porto: Portugal's 'second city' is second to none
I'm really into "second cities" these days. For generations, Industrial Age powerhouses in Europe turned into what we would call "the rust belt," while their elegant "first city" counterparts enjoyed the luster of the Information Age. But over the last decade or so, the rust has become a trendy accessory and industrial ruins have turned bohemian chic.
What’s Cooking in… Malta
Located between Sicily and North Africa, Malta is an archipelago in the Mediterranean that has been influenced by the cultures of a variety of peoples, including the Romans, Moors, French and British.
While visiting Malta in October 2016, my husband, John, and I stayed at the luxurious Corinthia Palace Hotel & Spa (de Paule Avenue, San Anton, Malta; phone +356 21 440301, www.corinthia.com/en/hotels/palace-hotel-and-spa), where we paid $133 per night, including taxes.
Family trip to Ethiopia
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Paris foodie tour
Baguettes, patés and terrines — on the 3-hour “Taste of the Left Bank” food tour of Paris offered by Paris By Mouth (phone +33 9 70 73 66 99, parisbymouth.com), travelers will visit a popular Parisian boulangerie, a charcuterie and a high-end fromagerie as well as a sweets shop and a wine merchant’s, sampling selected wares.
Tours are guided in English and include at least two hours of walking time. €110 (near $131) per person includes all provided food.
Today’s Berlin
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Finding back doors in today’s Europe
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A fundamental part of enjoying travel in Europe is finding places that I call “back doors.”
Abdominal thrusts, aka the Heimlich maneuver
Timeline: September 1976. A restaurant in Los Angeles.
Out of the blue, I choked on a piece of meat. I could not breathe. I stood up, my hands clenching my throat. Fortunately, a few seconds later, I could eject the piece of meat from my throat.
I looked around the restaurant. Everybody was staring at me. Nobody had come to help me. Nobody had attempted to use the Heimlich maneuver, which is the first-aid procedure for the treatment of choking caused by foreign objects.