Travel
Tried-and-true tips for when you're traveling abroad.
Free Report: The World's 10 Best Travel Adventures
Date: 08/09/2006How many people do you know who stand at the water cooler recounting the time they led a team of dogs across the Norwegian snow plains…or were guided up beginner-level cliffs in New Zealand? We've all spent enough vacations lying on the beach…day after day…only to return to the office feeling like we've somehow wasted our precious time away.
Read OnHow to Prepare for a Trip With Your Kids
Date: 08/17/2006"It's the journey that matters, not the destination." Whoever said that has obviously never flown with children.
Read OnThe Truth Behind the Tour Guide's Lies
Date: 03/18/2007P.S. Another eye-opener Catherine tells is about the real meaning of the expression "thumbs up," a misconception that is repeated in nearly every guidebook going…and one you'll find in historic paintings and Hollywood movies. She'll share that story, and many more just as fascinating, in The Owl. I'm already signed up: click here.
Read OnFree Report: Tales From the Road--the Best of Steenie Harvey
Date: 03/27/2007She left school at 15 to live in a hippy squat in London. She tended bar in a strip joint…inspected bolts at a factory…waitressed in a Chinese restaurant…and clerked at a print shop where she typed invoices and lied to customers about why their orders weren't ready. Today she is International Living's Roving Euro Editor, and regularly sends us notes from even further afield.
Read OnFive Ways to Save on Your Next European Car Rental
Date: 04/10/2007Put off by international timetables and endless airport lines? Seeing Europe from the front seat of a car is an alternative that doesn't need to cost the earth…
Read OnLearn Spanish (and How to Dance the Mambo…Harvest Tequila…Cook Tapas…)
Date: 05/15/2007Bring Spanish to life with activities as diverse as sangria tasting or salsa lessons at these inspiring education centers.
Read OnThe Woman Who Can't be Bribed
Date: 06/21/2007Have you ever been bribed?
I have, frequently. I'll explain more in a moment, but first a quick introduction. My name is Georgina Adams, and I'm the editor of IL's new e-letter, The Untourist.
Read OnCon Man, Smuggler, Archeologist, Thief
Date: 07/23/2007Was he one of the greatest explorers of the ancient world--an archaeologist who discovered Homer's Troy and showed that the Iliad and Odyssey are history books as well as poems; the man who first revealed that high civilizations had flourished in the eastern Mediterranean a thousand years before Pericles' Athens? Or was he a fraud--a man who salted his archaeological finds with treasures from elsewhere to make them more impressive; who made up stories about himself as well as his discoveries; and who became an American citizen by deceit?
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