travel | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:17:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Traveler’s Want https://www.thesmartset.com/the-travelers-want/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-travelers-want https://www.thesmartset.com/the-travelers-want/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=62687 “Follow me,” said Furat, our guide, and he took off. My husband Matt hastily grabbed my hand, and, like a pair of eager James Bond impersonators, we gave chase. Furat popped in and out of sight as he wove through the old city, ignoring red lights and crosswalks. “There he is!” Matt pointed. In the […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-travelers-want/feed/ 0 From Paris to Nowhere https://www.thesmartset.com/from-paris-to-nowhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-paris-to-nowhere https://www.thesmartset.com/from-paris-to-nowhere/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=62210 Paris, C’est Cher!  For 18 years, I lived with my (now) husband in a charming old artist atelier in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. My home was a short daily walk from the Jardin du Luxembourg with its spring blossoms and fall foliage, and lay in the shadow of the Tour Montparnasse, where I not […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/from-paris-to-nowhere/feed/ 6 Beach Trip! https://www.thesmartset.com/beach-trip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beach-trip https://www.thesmartset.com/beach-trip/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:14:04 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=60902 Storms beat on the rocky cliffs and were echoed  By icy-feathered terns and the eagle’s screams;  No kinsman could offer comfort there,  To a soul left drowning in desolation.  The Seafarer (Old English Poem) Well before the Bible told the story of Jesus calming the storm in the Sea of Galilee, and even before Odysseus’ […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/beach-trip/feed/ 0 The Allure of Medievalism https://www.thesmartset.com/the-allure-of-medievalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-allure-of-medievalism https://www.thesmartset.com/the-allure-of-medievalism/#respond Mon, 08 May 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=60300 On a recent three-week vacation to Italy where my wife Maria and I go each year to celebrate our Italian heritage, we spent our first week in Siena. Our only previous visit there had been three years earlier on a one-day tour to several Tuscan hill towns with a hired driver. The schedule called for […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-allure-of-medievalism/feed/ 0 Wreaths and Reyez https://www.thesmartset.com/wreaths-and-reyez/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wreaths-and-reyez https://www.thesmartset.com/wreaths-and-reyez/#respond Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=59873 I am obsessed with wreaths. Of all kinds. The ones that garland graves and coffins, the ones that hang on doors throughout Christmas. I love the white rose-studded wreaths hanging over the altar in between a couple sharing vows. I love the thistles and burnished brown leaves tied to make autumn wreaths. I love the […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/wreaths-and-reyez/feed/ 0 a modern pilgrimage https://www.thesmartset.com/a-modern-pilgrimage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-modern-pilgrimage https://www.thesmartset.com/a-modern-pilgrimage/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58959 4:44 reads the entry ticket at Edinburgh airport long stay car park. The flight isn’t scheduled for another two hours. When you mentioned it, your colleagues raised eyebrows: Medjugorje — since 1981 the site of ongoing apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but you can only either dive in headfirst or altogether walk away when […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/a-modern-pilgrimage/feed/ 0 Tracking Wolves in the Wild Heart of Italy https://www.thesmartset.com/tracking-wolves-in-the-wild-heart-of-italy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tracking-wolves-in-the-wild-heart-of-italy https://www.thesmartset.com/tracking-wolves-in-the-wild-heart-of-italy/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58850 Nothing moved on the side of the mountain. Nothing except us, as we quietly scanned the wide expanse of snow in the open valley below us, and the forested peaks of the mountains rising on the opposite side. It had been an early start, drinking espressos in the bar of the rustically charming Hotel Iris, […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/tracking-wolves-in-the-wild-heart-of-italy/feed/ 0 Matter https://www.thesmartset.com/matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matter https://www.thesmartset.com/matter/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:34:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58010 1. Avalon  I’m circumnavigating Avalon counter-clockwise, wading through see-through Atlantic waters at low tide. The water is so warm, this final afternoon of July 2021, and the tide so low, I’ve walked here from another island a quarter mile away. My husband and 14-year-old son are just ahead — tall figures about the same height, […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/matter/feed/ 0 Van Life https://www.thesmartset.com/van-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=van-life https://www.thesmartset.com/van-life/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:27:18 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57983 As I drove down the canyon and out of Sequoia National Park towards a town called Three Rivers in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, I saw what looked like a painted wall of mountains that nearly brought me and my van over the cliff’s edge. I wanted to reach out and stroke my fingers […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/van-life/feed/ 7 The Status of the Book in the Age of Digital Media  https://www.thesmartset.com/the-status-of-the-book-in-the-age-of-digital-media/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-status-of-the-book-in-the-age-of-digital-media https://www.thesmartset.com/the-status-of-the-book-in-the-age-of-digital-media/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:03:14 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57938 Park Avenue was festooned with tulips as we looked for parking on our way to the 62nd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The Fair was being held this spring, as it is every spring, at the Armory, a neo-Gothic structure that once housed the so-called “Silk Stocking” Seventh Regiment, owing to its location […]

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