A recent trip across the pond took me to a town in northeast England that until recently didn’t have much to offer tourists. As with other towns and villages around Durham, the shire town or seat of County Durham, it reminded me of the Rust Belt back home. Basically, the places where mining and other working-class jobs that once defined entire communities no longer exist.
If Malta is known, it’s known for what used to be called Christendom.
Forget Mexico. That’s my advice to readers seeking advice on where to go this spring.
While Tucson is hardly an unknown destination, Arizona’s second-largest city has more to offer than the bone-dry climate found throughout the Southwest.
Commemorations are underway for the 300th anniversary of the death of a man whose church architecture has stood the test of time.
Now is the time to plan that trip to Europe, with the peak late spring and summer travel season just around the corner.
Without question, this city across Biscayne Bay from Miami proper is known for its sandy beach even if the beach is actually artificial.
Geneva has moved on from John Calvin. In fact, Switzerland’s second-biggest city has been majority Roman Catholic for decades.
As with other Rust Belt cities, this city on Lake Ontario and near New York’s spectacular Finger Lakes region has a significant number of old churches of different denominations. The most notable hides within plain sight among the sea of buildings in downtown Rochester.
Another year of travel produced another year of travel surprises and disappointments.
