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Red Berlin: A Tour Through the City's Communist-Era Remnants
San Francisco Chronicle
September 14, 2014
 
Purple Minneapolis: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of "Purple Rain"
Los Angeles Times
July 30, 2014
 
Ashes to Ashes: India's Holiest City Embraces the Cycle of Life
AFAR
June 2014

Geared for a Guinness: Bicycling Ireland's Great Western Greenway
Los Angeles Times
April 4. 2014

Dining in Dublin, from Boxty to Blaa
The New York Times
February 2, 2014

Maximize Your Airline Miles
Men's Journal
November 2013

A Sort of Happy Ending
World Hum
June 8, 2013

Coffeeland
AFAR
May 2013

Mama Knows Best
AFAR
March/April 2013

The New Bohemia
AFAR
October 2012

Hotel Couture: A Fashion Hotel Grows in Kuwait
AFAR
September 2012

Burma Before the Crush
San Francisco Chronicle
July 15, 2012

Czech, Please
AFAR
July/August 2012

Vietnam's Bowl of Secrets
AFAR
May/June 2012

America's Best Beer Gardens
Travel + Leisure
October 2011

World's Top Five Memorial Sites
National Geographic Traveler
September 2011

In Spain, Hiking Along the Volcanoes of Catalonia
The New York Times
September 9, 2011

Blood, Sand, Sherry: Hemingway's Madrid

The New York Times
July 19, 2011

A Chip Off the Old Bloc: the Bizarre Capital of Belarus
AFAR
May/June 2011

New Yorkers' New York (essays on Greenwich Village and the Bowery)
National Geographic Traveler
April 2011

Soaking in and Savoring the Local Flavors of Rome
San Francisco Chronicle
January 30, 2011.

World's Weirdest Hotels, 3.0
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
November 2010

The Other Side of Basque Country
Gadling
November 2010

Spin the Globe: A Trip to the Witch Doctor in La Paz, Bolivia
AFAR
July/August 2010

In Oakland, Innovation is on the Menu
The New York Times
June 27, 2010

In Vietnam, Cauldrons on Every Corner
The New York Times
March 21, 2010

The World's Most Beautiful Bridges
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
December 2009

A Real Roman Holiday: The Short Story of Calcata
National Geographic Traveler
November/December 2009

Mumbai and the Luxury of Solitude
World Hum
August 11, 2009

On the Perils of Travel Writing
World Hum
July 6, 2009

How to Write a Bad Travel Story
World Hum
June 8, 2009

The World's Most Amazing Hotel Pools
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
June 2009

Bike Around the Bloc

National Geographic Traveler
April/May 2009

A Changing Smithfield Still Holds on to Dublin-Style Fun
The New York Times
April 26, 2009

Mumbai on the Rebound
The Washington Post
February 8, 2009

What's the Deal with Duty Free?
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
January 2009

Czech, Please: A New Star at the Bar
The Washington Post
July 6, 2008

Cold War Legacy: Peaceful Hiking in Bohemia
The New York Times
July 6, 2008

How to Cross the Street in Rome
World Hum
March 6, 2008

Along a Road of Antiquity
The New York Times
February 3, 2008

A Feast of Festivals in Tuscany
The New York Times
October 7, 2007

Wild Spas: The Divine Therapy
The New York Times
August 26, 2007

Turin's Shady Side
The Washington Post
July 29, 2007

A European Castle Call
Conde Nast Traveler
June 2007

My Special Education
PerceptiveTravel.com
May 2007

Caught in a Czech Funk
World Hum
February 2007

Day Out: Calcata, Italy: Where Newcomers Gave an Old Town a Second Life
The New York Times
Jan. 28, 2007

Restored Jewel: Old Dubrovnik,
The Boston Globe
Aug. 20, 2006

Montenegro--Coming Soon: The Next Small Thing?
The Washington Post
March 25, 2006

The Pasta Nazi
World Hum
March 2006

The Coast of Bohemia
PerceptiveTravel.com
March 2006


The Cheapest Places on Earth: Montenegro
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
Oct. 2005

The 10-Point Escape Plan: Dubrovnik
New York Magazine

August 8, 2005

Tour du Jour: Belfast Safaris
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
May 2005

A New Berlin Rises from the Bauboom
Chicago Tribune
February 27, 2005


In Vino Homoeroticus
BlackBook
September 2003

Cesky Krumlov: Flooded--With Tourists--Again
Chicago Tribune
Sept. 2003

Planet Stalingrad
Playboy
April 2003

Eloping, Italian Style
Chicago Tribune
Aug. 2002

Livin' La Vida Aloha
The Wave Magazine
May 2002
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