Travel

"My family is happy when I cook," confides Loulou Alexiadou as she dips two arms of an octopus into flour, shakes them gently, then places them in a pan sizzling with olive oil, garlic and white wine.

Grand canyons and acient castles in this taste of Arabia

"He shoots, he scores!" NHL Alumni, 2, Cuba Cruise Crew, 1. You don't expect to watch former hockey pros like Bernie Nicholls wielding a stick on the deck of your cruise ship, but Cuba Cruise isn't like any other cruise line I know.

A fairytale land

Wandering the streets of Barcelona is like dropping into a time travel machine... just pick your century for architecture, art, culture and music and it's here.

English travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who walked across the Balkans in the 1930s, writes in The Broken Road of first catching sight of the medieval capital of Bulgaria, Veliko Tarnovo: "It rose from a canyon like an emanation, a sharp flight of

A blow-up of the famous photo of Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who shot Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering the First World War, stopped me in my tracks.

Happy New Year! And "Bon Voyage" for the journeys of your year, whether they add stamps in your passport or smiles in your memories. A whole new year of travel awaits, like sails to unfurl and catch the winds.

"When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiPped Him.

The chocolatier squints at my creation and declares it "messy." "Slow down a bit," says Andrea Sonderegger as I attempt to make an oversize chocolate bar at Lindt headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.