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Current headlines from NYT > Travel:
- Seizing the Day in Tel Aviv
In this youthful, vibrant city in an ancient, troubled land, life is lived in the present. Anything wrong with that?
- Journeys | Vietnam: The Mekong, Seen Over Handlebars
The writer explores the marshy backwaters of Vietnam by bicycle, cruising past bamboo cafes on stilts and endless green rice paddies.
- Weekend in New York | Juice Bars: Pour Me a Melon: Masters of the Blenders’ Art
From Mexican-style watermelon water to carrot-and-spinach juice, discover the best cool drinks the city has to offer.
- 36 Hours in Toulouse
Under the city’s medieval church spires, a spider web of cobblestone lanes brims with art museums, theaters, upstart fashion boutiques and all-hours night life.
- Check In, Check Out: Los Angeles: Hotel Palomar
Picture a W hotel, with lower prices and a sense of humor.
- Comings and Goings: It’s Caribbean Bargain Time
To lure tourists during the low season, hotels are slashing room rates and offering food credits.
- Choice Tables | Seoul, South Korea: The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately, Sublime
A foodie’s quest starts with barbecue and takes off from there with a tangle of radish kimchi, spaghetti stuffed into an ice cream cone and raw octopus tentacles.
- Next Stop | Mexico: Move Over Oaxaca, Arty Michoacán Is Calling
A new stop on the Mexican crafts trail, the region is attracting more tourists and collectors with its colorful ceramics and glittering copper works.
- Practical Traveler | Booking Trips and Flights: For Some, Next Year Is Already Here
Whether prompted by rising airfares or the specter of fewer available flights, tour operators say travelers have been booking unusually early this year.
- Surfacing | Soi Arab, Bangkok: A Crossroads of Two Cultures
The colorful pedestrian alleyway, lined with shisha bars and Saudi restaurants, teems with an energy that is more Middle Eastern than Thai.
- Bites: Lucca, Italy: Pasticceria Taddeucci
Taste history in the shop's lavish loaves of buccellato Lucchese, a gently sweet cross between bread and coffee cake.
- A High-Seas Show With Gay Family Values
Rosie O’Donnell and friends take a trip on the good ship Mom and Pop.
- In Boston Harbor, but a World Away
Exploring the 34 islands and peninsulas that make up the 12-year-old Boston Harbor Islands National Park is a striking juxtaposition between modern and 19th-century visions of the city.
- 134 Miles of Yankee Charm
On a meandering road trip between two standard tourist spots — Sturbridge Village, Mass., and Newport, R.I. — a less known, often achingly beautiful New England reveals itself.
- Rituals: Their Camp, Our Getaway
After dropping off their children in New Hampshire, a couple stick around Lake Winnipesaukee for a while.
- Frugal Traveler | The Grand Tour: Tracing Family Roots in Vilnius
The Frugal Traveler discovers the Lithuanian capital, once the intellectual heart of the Eastern European Jewish world, and visits the town where his ancestors lived, prayed and died.
- In Paris, Burgers Turn Chic
Hamburgers and cheeseburgers have begun to invade Paris, even in restaurants run by three-star chefs.
- Going Down the Road: Places Captured in Time, but Not Frozen There
Retracing the routes of guides conceived as part of a 1930s jobs program reveals how much the nation has changed.
- Itineraries: Snoozing at the Terminal
Staying at an airport overnight has become more common as airlines cut back on hotel vouchers.
- On the Road: In Quest for Less Stress, It’s Auto Over Airplane
It can be worth it to drive instead of fly because higher air fares offset gas prices and time extracted by delays and missed connections usually exceeds time spent driving.
- In Japan, Buddhism May Be Dying Out
By appearing to cater more to the needs of the dead than to the living, Buddhism may be losing standing in Japan.
- Datebook: Duszniki Zdroj, Cardiff and Carmel
Events in Poland, Wales and California are worth getting on a plane for.
- Letters: Letter: Pittsburgh as Theater
To the Editor: I got a kick out of the travel section’s “36 Hours in Pittsburgh” (July 6). Pittsburghers have known for a long time that the only people who don’t like our city are those who have never visited. The theater scene here is vibrant. Not to be missed is Quantum Theatre (www.quantumtheatre.com), which since 1990 has been producing works in sites specific to them like a city park, abandoned industrial warehouse or an empty swimming pool in Andrew Carnegie’s first library building in Braddock, Pa.
- Letters: Letter: Bangkok District
To the Editor: I was very distressed that the Travel article “36 Hours: Bangkok” (June 29) chose to include a trip to Patpong, the infamous red light district. First, with a mere three days in a city rich with art, culture, religion and food, why would anyone waste their time at strip clubs or buying porn? But more disturbing, why would The Times advocate visiting a part of the city that profits from the sex trade, a business that exploits men, women and children? Visitors who want that experience will find it without a tacit endorsement by The Times. Lauren Bufferd.
- Letters: Letter: The Leopard
To the Editor: I would like to congratulate Adam Begley on his excellent article, “Sicily, Through the Eyes of the Leopard” (July 6). Having been born in Siracusa, Sicily, and grown up there in the 1960s, I was made to read “Il Gattopardo” in high school and never appreciated it. Not sure how, but recently I found the old high-school book, reread it and loved it. The article captures, better than any I have ever read, the essence of the book, the author, the land, the people, the contradictions, the culture. Paul Pirrotta.
Headlines last updated at Jul 20, 2008 08:30:22am.
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