Everett Potter's Travel Report

       In Getting Into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World's Most Famous Record Book, writer Larry Olmsted not only chronicles the 50-year history of Guinness… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Bobbie Leigh     Five superb masterpieces that – notoriously – rarely travel and leave the tranquil galleries of the Norton Simon Foundation and Museum in California have made… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Richard West     Remarkable, isn’t it, that Abraham  Lincoln, savior of democracy and the United States, and Charles Darwin, founder of modern biology and the world’s most influential… Continue reading »

        The pound was worth $1.44 when I checked this morning. A year ago, it was over $2. So if you've been putting off a return visit to London,… Continue reading »

   It seems like every hotel worthy of the name is pitching a Valentine's Day deal in this year of the recession. But the fact is that the best romantic… Continue reading »

        Years ago, I wrote a book on Brazil. I was happy and privileged to spend months traveling to the Pantanal, the Amazon and Bahia (not to mention Recife,… Continue reading »

        Nothing comes close to the bacchanal that is Carnival in Rio, which runs from February 20-25, 2009. Sure, you can book your own trip, but hotel rates are… Continue reading »

       The favelas of Rio, ramshackle squatter quarters on muddy hillsides, are best known for intractable poverty and violence. A shining exception within Favela do Pereirao in Santa Teresa … Continue reading »

        For many of us, Ipanema is the only place to stay in Rio, and with the new Fasano, a Brazilian-owned hotel, design mavens have a home. The all-too… Continue reading »

(Photo courtesy of the BBC) Reviewed by Richard West     Recently, I gazed at a map of the world and fondly remembered countries visited: sites seen, people met, divine meals… Continue reading »