Sean Conway

If I were to bring someone to Europe who had never been, the city of Salzburg in Austria might be our first stop. It’s a great...

My wife and I have had a lot of good meals and drinks in the pubs we’ve visited in Dublin, Killarney, and Galway, and in fact there’s a...

I grew up in the 1970s raised on iconic PBS kids’ shows like Sesame Street (which premiered in 1970) and Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood...

One thing a lot of coffee-loving Americans learn when traveling in Europe is just how difficult it is to get an iced coffee, especially...

Last year, the full stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that carves through California’s Big Sur finally reopened after rockslides rendered...

I’ve loved the movie Jaws since before I’d even seen it. I remember it playing at the North Reading Cinema for the entirety of the summer...

You can only get there by cable car, a nearly vertical elevation of 5374 feet above sea level, the last stop on a chugging train that...

We had a couple tours booked in advance of our arrival in Galway, Ireland last year: the Aran Islands and the Cliffs of Moher. That left...

Here’s a little anecdote: on my first trip to Europe in 2005 I spent five weeks in Montpellier, France as part of my MFA residency. I...

We canceled Iceland this week. Postponed it, I keep telling myself. Just postponed. Regardless, this summer’s trip is off. With a lot of...

Europe can be certainly appreciated on a purely aesthetic level, for its ancient architecture, awe-inspiring gothic cathedrals, and...

I was hesitant to add magical Venice to our recent trip to Italy. I’d been there before, back in 2005 when I was a graduate student beginnin

I never knew Anthony Bourdain, of course, yet there was something familiar about him to me—his laugh, his unfiltered, sometimes abrasive can