Susan James

The duck breast was perfectly cooked. The richness of the meat served with a pork sauce was cut ...

I was in Finnmark, a province in Northern Norway 200 miles above the Arctic Circle. This was the ...

Donegal is Ireland’s northernmost county, a place of jagged coastlines, slashed rock, soaring cliffs, and imposing headlands. White ...

Fragrant steam rises from kettles of simmering mulled wine, sparks fly from burning logs stacked in iron braziers, ...

The guy sitting next to me on my AirBerlin flight to Dusseldorf was heading to the city on ...

If there's one thing that's synonymous with France, it's wine. This spring, an ambitious new installation, Cité du ...

Spas and spa culture are an integral part of the local scene in laid-back Southern California. Located in ...

It's easy to find the island of Guadeloupe on a map. In the middle of the Lesser Antilles—a ...

No one knows exactly how old the Italian city of Perugia is. Built on a mountaintop about 4,000 ...

I was three years old the first time I saw Catalina Island and the town of Avalon, 30 ...

At the Mourne Seafood Bar on Bank Street in Belfast, owner Bob McCoubrey waved the food from his ...

I could hear the bagpipes playing from half a mile away. In this remote village in France it ...

Some sites in Paris never change—the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre. But Paris also has ...

Who you meet can be as exciting as what you see during the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature ...

Germany is celebrating Charlemagne’s life and achievements with numerous special exhibitions.

The favorite words of that original foodie, Marcus Gravius Apicius, about A.D. 30 were “in cibum est” (“The ...

Eating a slice of bread and butter in Ireland is like eating a slice nowhere else in the ...

If there is one thing Ireland is known for it’s fairy tales and ghost stories. While tantalizing hints ...

One of the best reasons to visit Dubai in the Land of the Arabian Nights is the food. ...

Despite the falling rain, the officers of the French Triomphant-class submarine Téméraire stood at attention in a dark ...

The Baroque palace, park and unique water gardens of Wilhelmshohe, a former royal playground in the central German ...

HANAU, Germany--Up on stage, Snow White and Rose Red were hitting their cringing servant boy with sticks. They ...

Still referred to locally as the Madchenschule or Girls School, Berlin’s trendy new dining complex, the House of ...

During the decades between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...

In September 2013, Dijon’s Musee des Beaux-Arts will celebrate the re-opening of its renovated galleries in the palace ...

When Enrico Cernuschi (1821–1896) was forced to flee his home in Milan after the revolution of 1848, he ...

“You’ve got to try this,” an American voice insisted among the pots of mustard and bowls of breadsticks. ...