Travel and Vacations

June 19, 2023

The Art of Wandering While Traveling

Your “first care must be to ignore the very dream of haste, walking everywhere very slowly and very much at random,” Henry James advised visitors to […]
June 13, 2023

In Milan, Putting an A.I. Travel Assistant to the Test

On her first visit to the northern Italian city, our reporter compares the itineraries of two travel advisers: one virtual, the other human. Here’s what she […]
June 7, 2023

Traveling the World With Your Best Friend at Any Age

“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. When Eleanor Hamby […]
May 31, 2023

Pottery Workshops Fill Up as People Travel to Connect Over Clay

Pottery workshops like those at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine are filling up with people who want to connect with others instead of […]
May 23, 2023

How a Novelist Became an Innkeeper

“These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan […]
May 12, 2023

Once an Evangelist for Airbnbs, She Now Crusades for Affordable Housing

Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing crisis. “Making It Work” is a series is about […]
May 8, 2023

Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage

“You can’t wear that flamenco dress for the El Rocío pilgrimage, Bonita,” Maria Cárdenas, our Airbnb host, said with a laugh. “You’ll die in the heat.” […]
April 29, 2023

London’s Coronation Countdown: Travelers Arrive, Others Flee

While hundreds of thousands are expected to arrive in London ahead of the crowning of King Charles III, others are making plans to get out of […]
April 8, 2023

To Freeze Their Eggs, Some Women Travel for a Better Deal and a Vacation

Faced with the high cost of egg-freezing in their home countries, some women are going abroad for a better deal, and a vacation. It’s hardly uncommon […]
March 14, 2023

Longing for Spring? A New Batch of Hotels Will Help You Celebrate It.

Cherry blossoms in Tokyo, wildflowers in the Hudson Valley, breezy rooftop views in Paris: Here’s where to check in for a spring getaway. You may still […]