Columns
Cleared for Takeoff: When a Travel Writer Gets Grounded
Detours by Jim Byers It was one thing when travel shut down due to COVID. This was something else.
A Barge through Burgundy: An Ode to Slow Travel
I’m not big on traveling slowly. I need to move—walk, run, bike, poke around, get lost, climb something, meet locals. So, when an opportunity came along to cruise through Burgundy by barge, I was skeptical. A barge? For six days?
Senior Adventure Travel: Expanding Personal Boundaries
It is indeed an exciting time with International Travel News coming back to life after a four-year hiatus, under new ownership and editorial management. It is an honor, as a former longtime ITN columnist, to be a part of this important relaunch adventure.
Rick Steves' Europe: Welsh Magic
For more than 20 years, I'd built my North Wales coverage around a charming medieval banquet at Ruthin Castle. Driving into Ruthin — and knowing its banquet was no longer being held — I intended to cut the town entirely from my book.
Countries the unvaccinated can visit. Mobile Passport Control app. Collecting a canceled-flight-reservation refund
Dear Globetrotter:
Airlines' concerns with 5G cell phone frequencies. Cruise lines and COVID guidelines. Crystal suspends cruises.
Dear Globetrotter:
In search of Edelweiss
It’s a glorious Swiss Alps morning. I’m spending my day walking with my schoolteacher friend, Olle, exploring the alpine landscape high above his home in Gimmelwald.
Flabbergasted in a Haarlem B&B
I’m hanging out in the living room of my B&B in the Amsterdam suburb of Haarlem with my hosts Hans and Marjet.