Everett Potter's Travel Report

 1. Shop Hard for Fares    I've been watching Christmas week fares rising, falling, rising again and then slipping back, as the airlines use their yield management programs to fill aircraft… Continue reading »

  Reviewed by Richard West    I didn’t know what it meant either. Quoz: “referring to anything strange, incongruous, or particular; at its heart is the unknown, the mysterious. It… Continue reading »

Skiing in a blizzard somewhere above the village of St Christoph in January, I felt like I was inside a freshly shaken Tyrolean snowglobe. The only colors I could detect… Continue reading »

      January is traditionally the hidden low period during the ski season, when ski resorts quietly offer lodging deals. But in anticipation of a sluggish 2009, the January doldrums… Continue reading »

     The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's have traditionally been among the most expensive to visit New York City.     So much for tradition.     This is 2008,… Continue reading »

 It's the end of the harvest season in North America, and thus an opportune moment to speak with Canadian writer Anita Stewart. For decades, Stewart has been writing and speaking… Continue reading »

                                                                                                                                                              (AVE train, Madrid, photo courtesy Seville Tourism) By Ed Wetschler     I know this will strike you as unmanly –- UnAmerican, even –- but after years of driving rental… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Richard West     In the past few weeks, two just-published short books have extended my Italian book collection closer to the J's: a celebration of things quintessentially Italian… Continue reading »