Bling, Bourbon, Fine Dining & Parades Define Mardi Gras New Orleans
Mardi Gras is on again! New Orleans’ signature event, with its floats, marching bands and…
Jacqueline Swartz grew up in San Francisco, lived in Greece and Paris and now resides in Toronto. She has traveled to seldom visited places in Northern India, interviewed philosophers in Paris and sent political dispatches and radio documentaries from Athens. Her work appears in major Canadian publications, and she has written for Agence-France Presse about the Toronto Film Festival, Cosmopolitan and other women’s magazines about health, and Conde Nast Traveler in the UK. Travel writing encompasses her interests and passions, from architecture to food, from health to archaeology.
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Immersive Art Spectaculars Take Art Outside Museums for Public Enjoyment
Back in 2020, a pandemic swept over much of the globe. People turned inward and…
Vienna Offers More than Mozart, Museums and Hapsburg Palaces
Dining at quirky cafes near the city’s oldest farmer’s market, dancing in a music festival…
U.S. Resort Towns Recovering from COVID-19 Rise From the Dead
The gyms are finally opening up. At Calistoga Pilates they are taking appointments for Pilates…
Searching for Mumbai’s Silk Road
Silk vendor at D. Popli & Sons in Mumbai displays high quality yet reasonably priced…
Getting Up Close to the Great Indian One-Horned Rhino
Driving slowly down the narrow road bordering the Kaziranga Wildlife Preserve in north eastern India,…
Baden-Baden: Germany’s Black Forest Gem Offers History, Wine, Nature & Music plus Europe’s Best Spas
Baden-Baden, the idyllic spa town at the foot of Germany’s Black Forest, draws spa-goers to…
The Ethics of Travel Writing: Can You Always Believe What You Read?
Freelance members of the Society of American Travel Writers interested in agritourism in the Tohoku…
There’s More to Romania than Transylvania, Dracula and Haunted Carpathian Forests
Romania conjures mysterious and sinister images of Count Dracula and the Transylvanian forests. Yet for…
Athens, An Artful Blend of Ancient and Modern Despite Years of Financial Crisis
By Jacqueline Swartz Returning to Athens after more than a dozen years seemed like an…
