Cinque Terre, coast of Italy.

A Beautiful Hike by the Mediterranean

Cinque Terre, Italy: Mediterranean Beauty By Eleonora Dell’Aquila WHERE The Cinque Terre are five villages – Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso – that lie in a stretch of eighteen kilometers along the rocky and irregular coast of eastern Liguria. In 1999 this territory and the marine environment have been…

Sardines in Lisbon, Portugal

Sardine Heaven: Lisbon’s Feast of Saint Anthony

By Jacqueline Harmon Butler Looking out the window of a music store in Lisbon, Portugal, I laughed out loud watching a passing parade of vintage convertible cars progressing along Avenue Liberdade. They were filled with brides in all sizes, shapes and ages, dressed in all their bridal finery. The storeowner…

dickinson frost

Transcendentalists’ New England

GoNOMAD Book Excerpt: A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England By Robert Todd Felton This work examines the major figures of the Transcendentalist movement and explores the places that inspired them. Beginning with Transcendentalism’s birth in Boston and Cambridge, the book charts the development of a movement that revolutionized American…

Scenic Amsterdam

Amsterdam: More Than Just Stoners and Prostitutes

By Laurie Ellis and Shady Hartshorne When some people think of Amsterdam, they think of a hedonist’s paradise where marijuana and prostitution are legal. Scantily clad women stand in store windows advertising their “wares” and scruffy backpackers from all over the world cram themselves into cheap hotels for the opportunity…

denmark

Helsingor, Denmark: Hamlet’s Home Town

By Jennifer Wattam Klit WHERE Copenhagen to Helsingor, also known as “Elsinore” is about 45 kilometers (28 miles) to the north. It has 60,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by The Sound (Oresund) — the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden. Helsingor is the closest Danish city to Sweden. The…

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