Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller’s journey to find them leads to something even more powerful: living memory.
Halfway through a chaotic two-week road trip through the Balkans, a baby cow licked away all my worries. When its tongue lapped at my hand like a bovine lollipop, it suddenly no longer mattered that two of the four of us were on antibiotics…
Included in Best Food Writing 2017: Teriyaki, the dish that the New York Times called Seattle’s version of the Chicago dog, is fading from the collective food brain of the city. What happened?…
Throughout the centuries of change, the quintessential Albanian concept of besa, a code of honor that promotes generous hospitality to strangers, has remained. The ideology holds that a home belongs first to guests and God, and then to the owner. It’s especially strong at…
Emi Suzuki agreed to take over her family’s 100-year-old watercress farm on a whim—now, she and her partner are striking a balance between preserving the old and shepherding in the new.
Most people come to Tahiti and its surrounding islands to celebrate a honeymoon, or a milestone birthday. They come for scenes like the double rainbow stretching onto the black sand of Plage Lafayette that greeted us on our first morning, or the sweet scent…
Though Anacapa sits just 13 miles away from Oxnard, California, and 50 from Los Angeles, it is part of one of America’s most remote national parks. There are no restaurants, no hotels, and few cars in the Channel Islands National Park. But there are…
I sprang for Amtrak’s Coast Starlight over the cheaper and faster Cascades route from Seattle to Portland, thinking my five-year-old would like the “Sightseer Lounge,” a glass-domed observation and café car. Only once we boarded and started chug-a-lugging south, I realized the extra $15…
AFAR reviewed dozens of plus-size rain jackets, puffy coats, and ski jackets for women to find the right one for every kind of weather you might encounter this winter.
Much to my children’s disappointment, I possess some old-fashioned beliefs that kids should watch the stunning Accursed Mountains rather than another episode of Gabby’s Dollhouse. But a lifetime of sharing the backseat of a minivan with two brothers, plus seven years of traveling with…
Officially named Haifeng—meaning “Sea Breeze”—this train debuted in December 2024 and carries just 60 passengers on a curated journey along Taiwan’s scenic western coast in Tiffany-blue train cars with upholstered sofa-style seats facing out, oversized windows, and gold trim everywhere.
