Everett Potter's Travel Report

By Gerrie Summers As a child, Sonia Sanchez was shy and spoke with a stutter, but she found her voice in poetry and influenced a generation of writers. Standing in… Continue reading »

  By Ian Keown I’m from Scotland, for heaven’s sake, the land of the dour and the disciplined, so what am I doing lolling around like a sybarite in a… Continue reading »

  By Everett Potter Even among Swiss ski towns, Gstaad gives fresh meaning to the term “rarefied.” Located in the Saanenland of southwestern Switzerland (famed for its ceremony crowning the… Continue reading »

By Richard West Celebrity alert!  Waiting to board my never-late SAS flight to Stockholm, I glanced right and noticed a familiar-looking rather handsome plumber. No,  it was Michael Nyqvist, currently… Continue reading »

    By Marc Kristal If you visit Peru, your guide will undoubtedly tell you certain things, many of them food-related. You’ll discover that there are, thanks to the 28… Continue reading »

By Everett Potter It was Robert Redford, the Erstwhile Sundance Kid, who was the first person to mention the Outlaw Trail to me. I was interviewing Redford at his Sundance… Continue reading »

  By Bobbie Leigh Berlin reinvents itself faster than any other city in Europe. Since the Wall fell 22 years ago,  Berlin’s rate of change has been  verging on frantic. … Continue reading »

By Marc Kristal British double agent Guy Burgess passed government secrets to Russian spies in the bar. MPs arrived in the lobby via a secret tunnel connected directly to Parliament… Continue reading »

  By Marc Kristal We reach Bharatpur, where our magic bus is to be exchanged for an air-conditioned India Railway car. Bhowani explains that the drive to Ranthambore National Park… Continue reading »

By Joan Rattner Heilman Planning a trip to Death Valley National Park?   If so, you’re unusual.  And that’s good.  Except for the busloads of foreign visitors stopping for lunch or… Continue reading »