The Pastel Palette of Italy’s Cinque Terre
Pixar’s 2021 film Luca looked awfully familiar. The coming-of-age story of sea monsters living incognito among the humans of a small...
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Sean Conway
- Jul 19, 2021
- 3 min
Land of Fire & Ice
“Amazing.” “Stunning.” “Incredible.” “So, so beautiful.” I’d been hearing superlatives decorating any mention of Iceland like confetti,...
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Sean Conway
- May 14, 2021
- 4 min
Building a Tradition in the Cayman Islands
Before our 2010 honeymoon, Christine and I had taken just two trip together: the first was an April vacation in Clearwater Beach in...
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Sean Conway
- Apr 25, 2021
- 5 min
Is Provincetown, Cape Cod the Key West of Massachusetts?
During the summer of 2012 I had the opportunity to visit both Key West, Florida, and then, later, Provincetown at the very tip of Cape...
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Sean Conway
- Apr 7, 2021
- 6 min
A Deep Dive in Tulum, Mexico
Tulum was the third chapter in the Jeff trilogy. Christine and I had traveled to Belize with my brother, Jeff, back in 2016, and then...
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Sean Conway
- Mar 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Fairy Tale of Prague
It has the best-preserved Old Town in perhaps all of Europe. Called the City of A Hundred Spires, and for good reason, its square is...
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Sean Conway
- Mar 4, 2021
- 5 min
A Stroll Before Sunrise through Vienna, Austria
We arrived in beautiful and historic Vienna with our Rick Steves guidebook in hand, the self-guided walking tour of the city bookmarked...
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Sean Conway
- Feb 22, 2021
- 6 min
Exploring New England on a Pair of Skis
For a while, our travel years were a little out of balance. My wife and I usually had an ambitious summer itinerary that often included...
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Sean Conway
- Feb 11, 2021
- 5 min
J’adore Quebec City
Way back in the day, Christine and her family took a road trip to Quebec City, the entire family stuffed into their 1970s station wagon:...
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Sean Conway
- Feb 4, 2021
- 4 min
Barcelona's Towering Sandcastle
From a distance, I’ve always thought the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain looked like an elaborate sandcastle. On my 2006 visit to the...
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Sean Conway
- Jan 28, 2021
- 12 min
The Journey to Land's End
In my recent novel, Land’s End, a young brother and sister are kidnapped by their estranged father, a man they’ve only seen sporadically...
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Sean Conway
- Jan 22, 2021
- 7 min
Belfast and Northern Ireland’s Antrim Coast are all Killer, No Filler
Belfast, Northern Ireland was our home base for a week in 2019 for my sister-in-law’s wedding. We’d been to the Republic of Ireland a...
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Sean Conway
- Jan 14, 2021
- 6 min
I Can See for Miles and Miles in Majestic Norway
I’ve has this theory for a while now that being able to train our eyes on a distant point is good for our mental health. In other words,...
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Sean Conway
- Jan 8, 2021
- 7 min
You Want it, They Got It in Amsterdam
Amsterdam was the third city on our whirlwind 2013 European adventure, and the first that I’d fallen in love with. I liked our days in...
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Sean Conway
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
A One-Night Stand in Bruges, Belgium
Our first European adventure as a couple, back in 2013, took us to five countries in two-plus weeks, beginning with a couple days in...
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Sean Conway
- Dec 2, 2020
- 5 min
Turned on by Off-Season Ogunquit
I’ve written about coastal Maine before, specifically about our road trip up to Bar Harbor, and there was no shortage of great seaside...
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Sean Conway
- Oct 25, 2020
- 7 min
Stockholm, I'm Home
Sweden had been on my radar for a long time. During my MFA program, I’d spent three summers studying in the south of France and Madrid,...
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Sean Conway
- Sep 29, 2020
- 6 min
It's Always Travel Season (Even When It's Not)
Call me a technophobe, but I’ve always worried about all the photos people take and have on their phones, or PC hard drives, or stored in...
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Sean Conway
- Aug 30, 2020
- 9 min
In Hawaii, Things Keep Getting Better and Better
We joined my brother, his wife, and their then-eight month old daughter on an ambitious Hawaii adventure in 2018. They’d been three...
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Sean Conway
- Aug 21, 2020
- 11 min
Where it Began: An Overdue Return to Lake Winnipesaukee
Throughout the first half of the 1970s, my family owned a camper and lot at a summer trailer park on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire...
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Sean Conway
- Aug 16, 2020
- 5 min
In London, An Abbey Road Pilgrimage
This past September marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ classic album Abbey Road, which included the iconic tracks...
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Sean Conway
- Aug 12, 2020
- 4 min
Room to Breathe in France’s Alsace Region
It was an ambitious trip abroad this summer—a week in Belfast, Northern Ireland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, then almost three weeks...
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Sean Conway
- Aug 7, 2020
- 4 min
I'm a Belizer
It wasn’t particularly easy to get to, which might be why it’s such a hidden gem. From Boston we laid over in Houston, then on to Belize...
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