Underbelly

Tyler rolls his eyes at an NYT account of prodigal misspending at the Italian Tourist Board, particularly in respect to the South and Sic...

Washington Irving, already a celebrity of sorts as a literary gent, takes his ease as a guest of the Governor of Granada in the palace/fort...

Ah, here's a find: my battered copy of A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece , edited by Richard Stoneman. copyright 1984.  I can...

I'm totally in the tank for those maps of Europe as it might have been, with all the also-rans in full majesty.  Ruthenia, Provence, Po...

In any major airport, the long line of disheveled customers queued up before a single harried employee--that's likely to be the United ...

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I'd never been to Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum until yesterday. I't say it's worth the trip, though perhaps not for reasons...

We've committed a predictable number of rookie traveller errors in Holland over the past few days. No surprise there; the interesting pa...

You remember the Provos?  I always liked the Provos.  They were the Dutch anarchists who anticipated the Yippies: they made protest fun.  Th...

I suppose you knew, but I just found it out.  Anyway, do you know what the "dam" stands for in "Amsterdam"?  Stands for...

Having spent most of Saturday knocking about the neighborhood of Amsterdam's sex shops and weed joints, we thought it only fair that we ...

Happily, the baggage has arrived.  And compliments to my friend Nancy who says she can't bear to believe that her underwear is having mo...

Rambling through the old sex bazaar in Amsterdam makes me remember a doctor I knew who treated young people in those days: he it was who tol...

I'm not here any more, did  I say?  I'm in Amsterdam, although my clean underwear is in Heathrow.   And here's a puzzle for you,...

Dan  There's a story common among newsmen about the cub reporter sent out to cover a launching.  He came back with an apology: there...

I travel a fair amount but not really that widely so I may not have enough of a data base, but let me ask, is it not true that the nation...