Cultured Traveler: Call It Beyrouth: Beirut With a French Accent

Bryan Denton for The New York Times At Villa Clara, the menu is in French. I was finishing an aperitif on the porch at Villa Clara while other guests tossed pétanque balls in the nearby yard. The hotel's 4-year-old namesake cozied up to her papa,...

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In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Budapest; Portland, Ore.; South Dakota

Budapest International Wine Festival, Budapest Held in Budapest, above, at Buda Castle, this wine event, from Sept. 11 to 15 will salute female winemakers in interviews and special tastings amid the showcase of nearly 200 Hungarian wineries....

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In Transit Blog: A Travel Book With a Global, and Personal, Touch

A 21-year-old artist has reinvented a cherished commodity for world travelers seeking an authentic experience in a new place: a local's recommendation. In a limited-edition book (just 200 copies were printed) titled "For You the Traveller," New Zealand-born...

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T Magazine: Travel Diary | Michael Voltaggio’s Gutsy Food Adventure in Copenhagen

Earlier this week, the brothers Michael and Bryan Voltaggio, American chefs and former "Top Chef" contestants, traveled to Copenhagen for the third MAD Symposium, an annual food festival that brings together chefs and farmers. Curated by David Chang...

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Choice Tables: Portland, Me.: Locavore in Menu and Décor

Alexandra Daley-Clark for The New York Times The dining room at Fore Street in Portland, Me. It's hardly a secret that Portland, Me., is a food-lover's paradise. Stroll down the sloping streets and cobbled lanes in the heart of this small maritime...

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In Transit Blog: Lufthansa Focuses on Its Younger Passengers

Lufthansa airlines recently introduced several initiatives for families with children up to age 12. For starters, the airline's Frankfurt and Munich hubs now have dedicated Family Check-In Areas. A welcome archway with a runway-styled carpet leads...

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Heads Up: Bringing the Wine to Portland, Ore.

Leah Nash for The New York Times Clockwise from top left, the Southeast Wine Collective; Sauvage at Fausse Piste; Michael Claypool and Sasha Davies of Clay Pigeon Winery; charcuterie at the Southeast Wine Collective. Portland, Ore., has a new thing...

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Update: Tour Iran? Operators Hope So

Album/Prisma, via Newscom The ruins of Persepolis are among Iran's Unesco World Heritage sites. At the top of the agenda of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, is fixing the country's crumbling economy, and promoting international tourism is...

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Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland

Seth Kugel for The New York Times Clockwise from top left: Becker County Fair in Minnesota; an Iowa barn; driving a tractor through downtown Pella, Iowa; a motorcyclist in South Dakota for the Sturgis Motorcyle Rally takes in Mount Rushmore; a pastoral...

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Where the Arty Flock in Seoul (Hint: It’s Not Gangnam)

Most Western visitors to Seoul head right for the Gangnam neighborhood, whose glossy shops and well-heeled clientele were immortalized in the monster pop hit "Gangnam Style." But the city's arty crowd is flocking to Hapjeong, which until recently was...

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T Magazine: Travel Diary | Irene Neuwirth’s Eight Great Days in Greece

Irene Neuwirth, the fine jewelry designer whose colorful statement pieces are red carpet regulars and top sellers at Barneys New York, calls herself a seasoned traveler. Yet after her long flight from Los Angeles to London to Athens, and then her eight-hour...

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In Transit Blog: A Scottish Resort Has a Beef List

Make way, wagyu. Gleneagles resort in Scotland offers diners up to a half-dozen options of cattle breeds to choose from when selecting their steaks. The 850-acre Perthshire golf resort recently launched a "Breed Book" at its Mediterranean-style restaurant...

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In Transit Blog: On Tiny Fogo Island, a Hotel Puts a Focus on Design

Fogo Island, a windswept fleck of land off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, has in the last several years been the site of an exciting project in economic renewal and avant-garde architecture. Disused saltbox houses that once belonged to fishermen...

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In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Hawaii; Kentucky; Munich

Aloha Festivals, Oahu, Hawaii A celebration of Hawaiian culture and history through music, dance, cuisine and art will take place at various locations on Oahu during the 2013 Aloha Festivals from Sept. 12 to 28. Highlights include an opening ceremony...

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In Transit Blog: Walkabout: Cleanup of Costa Concordia, Finally; Rim Fire Threatens Yosemite’s Resevoir

Walkabout A weekly capsule of travel news curated by our writers and editors. Concordia Cleanup Costa Concordia, the luxury cruiser that capsized off the Italian coast last year, will be salvaged next month in a maneuver that is expected...

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In Transit Blog: A New Benjamin Franklin Museum

The new Benjamin Franklin Museum opens on Saturday in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, with 21st-century hands-on exhibits and computer simulations designed to animate the character and wisdom of the 18th-century sage. In an underground...

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In Transit Blog: A Scottish Resort Has a Beef List

Make way, wagyu. Gleneagles resort in Scotland offers diners up to a half-dozen options of cattle breeds to choose from when selecting their steaks. The 850-acre Perthshire golf resort recently launched a "Breed Book" at its Mediterranean-style restaurant...

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In Transit Blog: On Tiny Fogo Island, a Hotel Puts a Focus on Design

Fogo Island, a windswept fleck of land off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, has in the last several years been the site of an exciting project in economic renewal and avant-garde architecture. Disused saltbox houses that once belonged to fishermen...

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In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Hawaii; Kentucky; Munich

Aloha Festivals, Oahu, Hawaii A celebration of Hawaiian culture and history through music, dance, cuisine and art will take place at various locations on Oahu during the 2013 Aloha Festivals from Sept. 12 to 28. Highlights include an opening ceremony...

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In Transit Blog: A New Benjamin Franklin Museum

The new Benjamin Franklin Museum opens on Saturday in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, with 21st-century hands-on exhibits and computer simulations designed to animate the character and wisdom of the 18th-century sage. In an underground...

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In Transit Blog: A Scottish Resort Has a Beef List

Make way, wagyu. Gleneagles resort in Scotland offers diners up to a half-dozen options of cattle breeds to choose from when selecting their steaks. The 850-acre Perthshire golf resort recently launched a "Breed Book" at its Mediterranean-style restaurant...

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In Transit Blog: On Tiny Fogo Island, a Hotel Puts a Focus on Design

Fogo Island, a windswept fleck of land off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, has in the last several years been the site of an exciting project in economic renewal and avant-garde architecture. Disused saltbox houses that once belonged to fishermen...

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In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Hawaii; Kentucky; Munich

Aloha Festivals, Oahu, Hawaii A celebration of Hawaiian culture and history through music, dance, cuisine and art will take place at various locations on Oahu during the 2013 Aloha Festivals from Sept. 12 to 28. Highlights include an opening ceremony...

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In Transit Blog: A New Benjamin Franklin Museum

The new Benjamin Franklin Museum opens on Saturday in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, with 21st-century hands-on exhibits and computer simulations designed to animate the character and wisdom of the 18th-century sage. In an underground...

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In Transit Blog: A Scottish Resort Has a Beef List

Make way, wagyu. Gleneagles resort in Scotland offers diners up to a half-dozen options of cattle breeds to choose from when selecting their steaks. The 850-acre Perthshire golf resort recently launched a "Breed Book" at its Mediterranean-style restaurant...

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In Transit Blog: On Tiny Fogo Island, a Hotel Puts a Focus on Design

Fogo Island, a windswept fleck of land off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, has in the last several years been the site of an exciting project in economic renewal and avant-garde architecture. Disused saltbox houses that once belonged to fishermen...

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In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Hawaii; Kentucky; Munich

Aloha Festivals, Oahu, Hawaii A celebration of Hawaiian culture and history through music, dance, cuisine and art will take place at various locations on Oahu during the 2013 Aloha Festivals from Sept. 12 to 28. Highlights include an opening ceremony...

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The Getaway: Private Flying for (Some of) the Rest of Us

Joshua Bright for The New York Times The author boards an XOJet craft at Teterboro Airport, in New Jersey. In less time than it takes to undergo a body scan, I breezed through the terminal and onto the tarmac. No one at Teterboro Airport, in...

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Heads Up: A Food Scene With Local Roots Sprouts in Maryland

Vanessa Vick for The New York Times Bryan Voltaggio opened Family Meal in Frederick, Md., his hometown. For a city once nicknamed "Fredneck" because of its reputation as an unsophisticated working-class town, Frederick, Maryland's second largest...

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Sipping the Pleasures of Istria

Filip Horvat for The New York Times A waiter carries a glass of malvasia wine at a bar in Rovinj. On a recent afternoon, I found myself having lunch on a shaded patio about 20 feet from the banks of a placid river that empties out into the Adriatic...

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Frugal Traveler: Motorcycles, Memorials and the Middle of Nowhere

By John Woo Sturgis Biker Reunion: Seth Kugel's summer road trip takes him to Sturgis, S.D., during an annual gathering of thousands of motorcyclists. It turns out I've been using the phrase "in the middle of nowhere" incorrectly my whole life....

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In a Montreal Neighborhood, Barbershops and Bars

The semi-industrial no man's land between Montreal's Mile End and Parc Extension neighborhoods is home to abandoned, graffitied textile factories, food processing plants and repair shops. With the garment workers gone, it's been largely neglected except...

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Personal Journeys: Would a Gay Man Be Welcomed Home in Montana?

A few years ago, the band Little Big Town had a hit song called "Boondocks." It was a twangy, boot-stompin' ditty about the raptures of rural living: "I feel no shame. I'm proud of where I came from. I was born and raised in the boondocks." If only...

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36 Hours in Izmir, Turkey

Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times Fishing along the waterfront in Izmir. "Infidel Izmir." That's the nickname that was long ago bestowed on Turkey's third-largest metropolis. Known for most of its history as Smyrna, this port city was, in Ottoman...

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Explorer: Near Qingdao, Hiking a Magical Mountain

Jeffrey Lau for The New York Times Pools of water collect all over the Laoshan Scenic District. The sun was low and the air still hot when I swallowed the last drops from my canteen. My companion and I were hiking up the southern pass of Laoshan,...

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