Sean Conway

From a distance, I’ve always thought the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain looked like an elaborate sandcastle. On my 2006 visit to the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

I’ve written about coastal Maine before, specifically about our road trip up to Bar Harbor, and there was no shortage of great seaside...

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,...

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...

We joined my brother, his wife, and their then-eight month old daughter on an ambitious Hawaii adventure in 2018. They’d been three...

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...

This past September marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ classic album Abbey Road, which included the iconic tracks...

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...

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...

I’m not a bicycle enthusiast: when I ride, it’s usually for a few miles, not 30 or 40, and I'm never wearing a Spandex superhero suit....

We arrived in Florence midday from Venice, our hotel right in the heart of the city, Plaza del Duomo, in the shadow of the iconic Duomo,...

The United Nations recently released its “World’s Happiest” report, and this year the happiest country in the world is Finland, with...

Our favorite place in the Caribbean is probably St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Being a U.S. territory, it’s easy to get to and...

For many, Italy serves as an introduction to Europe, and for good reason. Rome, in particular, is often one’s first destination, with its...

I’ve done extensive genealogical research these last few years, tracing the branches of my family history to Ireland, Sweden, and...

Budapest was the next big city on our 2019 trek after a few nights in iconic Paris. In between, we’d visited the Alsace region of France...

Newburyport, Massachusetts is about a 45-minute drive from our home, and it’s a ride we don’t mind taking every few weeks just to sit...

I’d heard the song being played on four different recent summers overseas. Sting’s iconic 1993 melancholy hit “Fields of Gold,” with its...

The photo of a man on his back holding off a giant bull while one of its horns penetrated his calf, the outline of the curved and sharp...