Fifty years after her own first safari, a grandmother takes her adult granddaughter on a trip to Kenya, hoping to pass along her passion.
Category: Travel and Vacations
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9 Tips for Planning Your Multigenerational Family Trip
Travel’s big rebound has many extended clans planning long-delayed trips. Here are some tips on how to make sure grandparents, parents and grandchildren all have a great time.
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In the Basque Region of Spain: Art, Culture and a Puppy That Blooms
Does a culture-centric family trip have to be boring for the kids? Our writer finds the perfect balance of contemporary art, scary medieval weapons, Gothic cloisters and wide-open space.
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A Lighthouse to Call Your Own
A weekend at a family hostel in a light station on the California coast is filled with tide-pooling, stargazing and marking time by the beacon’s flash.
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8 Places Near Palm Beach to Keep the Grandchildren Busy
Arm yourself with this list of child-friendly activities in the Palm Beach area and never hear the dreaded words “I’m so bored” again.
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Say Goodbye to Daily Hotel Room Cleaning
The pandemic put a pause on many hotels’ guaranteed once-a-day cleanings. Now many of them are making the change permanent, even saying guests prefer it.
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I’m Lost All the Time. So I Went on a Labyrinth Vacation.
The dizzying joys of maze tourism, in Barcelona, Paris and Chenonceaux.
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An Independent Barbados
The country recently declared itself a republic and there’s a new energy on the Caribbean island. Rum shops, farmers’ markets and surf breaks are there to be found if you venture beyond the resorts of the island’s west coast.
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British Woman Finishes 10-Year Survey of National Trust Scones
A Londoner spent 10 years sampling scones at hundreds of historic sites across the U.K. Here’s why her story made headlines — and which essential topping she says should come before the other.
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Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas
On a trip through northern India, a writer was guided by the age-old epic story of “Rajula Malushahi,” which led him to a series of unexpected places.
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The Age-Old Food Fight That Beats an Italian Town to a Pulp
Every winter, Ivrea erupts into a ferocious three-day festival where its citizens pelt one another with 900 tons of oranges. (Yes, oranges.)
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The Problem With Celebrity Travel Shows? The Celebrities.
What used to be meaningfully informative programming, delivered by personable but only tangentially notable hosts, is gradually being swallowed up.