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Steak Frites: Seeking the Best of a Classic By MARK BITTMAN STEAK frites is enough of a Paris institution that Le Relais de Venise — an institution in itself — serves nothing else. You go, are handed a menu with almost no choices on it, and are asked whether you want your…

By CINDY PRICE IT'S tough to slap an itinerary on Key West. The whole point of this two-by-four-mile island, after all, is to kick off your shoes and let it all hang out. But here's the rub: do Key West wrong and you might not relax. Witness lower Duval Street, that cacophony of sound,…

Adventures in Low-Cost Travel By MATT GROSS UNRESTED and unshowered, I arrived at Luton Airport, in suburban London, around 5 a.m., and did not expect my situation to improve. I’d been up all night, wandering around London with friends, and now I was about to fly to Morocco on an…

In the Eternal City, Priceless Art for No Price at All By IAN FISHER IT is hard to advise a visitor in Rome to skip the Sistine Chapel just because tickets cost $17 or that the line can last for hours. At the same time, in no other city can one wander, with completely empty pockets, and…

By GISELA WILLIAMS Amsterdam still harbors a strong bohemian and laid-back spirit, which means affordable options rarely found in other European capitals, from well-priced restaurants to free cultural events. And it's an easy city to navigate, thanks to its small size and the efficient…

NEW YORK (AP) -- One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability, officials said Saturday. The tree program is one of 127 environmental proposals that Mayor Michael…

On a Budget in London? Think Small By JANE PERLEZ A NEWCOMER to London has to start with the premise that very little is affordable in this city. For starters, there is the £4 subway ride that will take you one stop. And then the check for a modest restaurant meal often looks…

Come Spring, Art Is Served Alfresco By SETH KUGEL TWO South Korean tourists in their 20s, Sang Woo Lee and Saw Yoon Kim, had happened upon the New York Korean War Veterans Memorial at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan: a soldier's silhouette cut from black granite, the monument decorated…

By ANN M. MORRISON IT'S deer season in Luxembourg. You'll find blue, yes blue, deer all over the capital city of the world's only grand duchy — on brochures, on banners and as four-foot-high metal sculptures. The deer, with 2007 stamped on its hindquarters, is the symbol of…

A Cheap Room Puts Old San Juan Within Reach By MATT GROSS CALLEJON DE LA CAPILLA, a narrow, brick-paved alleyway about 200 feet long, is the nexus of cool in Old San Juan. Behind a thick wooden door is the Nuyorican Cafe, the hottest spot for live jazz and salsa; across from it is a…

By KRISTINA SHEVORY WHEN Robert and Jeannie Hidey went to Bachelor Gulch in Colorado three years ago, they figured they would ski five days and see their daughter who attended college nearby. The last thing they expected to do was to buy a second home. It was their first time at the ski…

By MICHELLE HIGGINS NEARLY every morning, over his second cup of coffee, Tom Brady, general manager at the Affinia Chicago, logs onto his computer and surfs over to TripAdvisor.com to see if there are any new postings about his hotel. “It’s an obsession,” he said. If the…

"Was immer du schreibst...schreibe kurz, und sie werden es lesen,schreibe klar, und sie werden es verstehen,schreibe bildhaft, und sie werden es im Gedächtnis behalten..."Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), US-amerikanischer Journalist und Verleger

By MARIALISA CALTA IT seemed as though the entire population of Tuscany was congregating on Il Campo, the famous, shell-shaped piazza in Siena, snacking on bread, salumi, cheese and panforte, the famous Sienese cake. The crush of bodies in the shadow of the 335-foot clock tower, the Torre…

By ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL IN the wilds of Marsa Alam, Egypt, nothing is familiar. Pastel mountains, a pink, green and yellow pointillist fantasy, soar overhead, scraping the shimmering curtain of the sky. Sand dunes fan out in orderly waves, orange-striped goats feeding between them, and…

By ANN M. MORRISON HONG KONG's newest tourist attraction, a 25-minute cable-car ride over the rugged green hills of Lantau Island, says a lot about this former British colony. Ngong Ping 360 (www.np360.com.hk) demonstrates Hong Kong's fascination with travel and technology; the skyrail's…

All the World’s a Road Game By FRED BIERMAN FOR Michael McDonough, vacation-scheduling takes care of itself. “I block all of my vacation time each year on one day: When the Red Sox release their schedule in November,” said Mr. McDonough, a 27-year-old public relations…

By KIM SEVERSON NEW YORK’S mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, loves popcorn and merlot, but not always at the same time. He watches his weight carefully, but more often than not a hamburger will do for lunch, with maybe a little cream cheese on a cracker for a snack. The mayor’s a…

By STEPHEN METCALF FILLED with man-purses and tolerance and kaftans draped on the backs of cafe chairs, should the temperature suddenly drop, Copenhagen is notoriously too civilized. At stoplights, bicycles queue with a Tetris-like geometry, and the natives never jaywalk. (Step into one…

Philip Roth Wins Saul Bellow Prize Philip Roth is to be named today the winner of the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, The Associated Press reported. The $40,000 prize, to be given every two years, honors a “distinguished living American author of fiction…

By MIMI SHERATON MOST visitors to Milan, Italy's center of finance, commerce and design, go looking for gold, literally or figuratively, and so do I. But the gold I search for is culinary. I first realized that is this city's favorite food color some 40 years ago when I found…