Posted On: January 29, 2013
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It takes a lot to be a lifeguard in Viareggio, Italy, as these two gentlemen proved when I was lucky enough to spend a few sunny days there last June. It takes guts, as you…
Posted On: December 31, 2012
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Over lunch recently, a work colleague who’s a longtime executive at a large ad agency described her Catch-22 predicament: She has about 40 days of unused vacation saved up. BUT, due to excessive vakay stockpiling,…
Posted On: August 17, 2012
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The little girl in the ruby slippers says, “There’s no place like home.” And she’s right: After a long travel adventure, home can feel like the most dull, predictable, and (just say it) boring place…
Posted On: August 2, 2012
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The family vacation may go the way of the dodo bird—if work bennies and family units continue to fall apart. Perhaps that’s why some of us keep advocating long-term family travel: escaping your homelife for…
Posted On: July 22, 2012
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Our family of four spent this BreakAway’s final five days in stunning Stockholm—a Swedish city that shines with history and pride, drips money from its mostly cloudy skies, and is built on 14 islands that…
Posted On: July 8, 2012
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There’s much to say about Copenhagen, but it must wait til I’m home where screen life will usurp street life. So for now, let the pictures tell the story—with these 10 vignettes from five days…
Posted On: June 19, 2012
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Years ago, I sauntered through Viareggio on a dreary fall day. The place was a ghosttown—so deep into its hibernation that the term “life support” came to mind. There was an empty shabbiness that suggested…
Posted On: June 12, 2012
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My kids are angels. Usually. But being kids, they’re often little devils too. Thus parenthood survival often requires more than patience; it also calls for the occasional manipulating, bribing and hiding—as in, hiding the truth.…
Posted On: June 10, 2012
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To paraphrase our good friend Garrison Keillor, “It’s been a pretty quiet day in Barga, Toscana.” The sun rose early. The stalls of the Saturday market were stocked and rigged. And here and there, in…
Posted On: June 8, 2012
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Dorothy Parker’s notorious quote,
I hate writing, but I love having written,” adapts well to, “I hate traveling, but I love being there.”
On this Tuscan travel adventure, the first leg of a lite-gonzo Euro…
