Travel

By Jens Ourom We felt like grizzled cycle trek veterans as we approached France’s border from the south.

By Jens Ourom Just as our Portuguese was becoming passable, and perhaps before we were quite prepared for it, we loaded our bicycles onto a nondescript ferry for a 10-minute crossing of the Rio Guadiana that separates southern Portugal and Spain.

Words and images by Jens Ourom Bicycle tourists risking death and dismemberment in Sea to Sky Highway traffic, struggling up endless hills with all their worldly belongings strapped to their bikes — as these very belongings drag them right back down

Through most of the 20 th century, tourists gave the city of Bautzen, in eastern Germany, a wide berth. “We had a bad reputation because of our prisons,” says Hendrik Jünemann, a 50-something tour guide who has lived in Bautzen all his life.

Edible British Columbia in partnership with Blue Planet Kayaking Adventures hosts three-day west coast explorations of camping, kayaking and cuisine Snuggled in for an afternoon nap, the rain lulled me into daydreams of the early morning: sea otters

Rice paddies and silk farms along China’s ancient waterway are giving way to heavy industry

The small, colonial town of Cafayate, comfortably situated at the southern border of Argentina’s Salta province, lies at a crossroad between the historically rich northwest and the viticulturally rich provinces to the south.

By Jack Souther The Chinese tradition of doing things on a grand scale dates back centuries to the building of the Great Wall, and the quest for supremacy continues to influence almost everything the Chinese set their mind to, including theatre.

By Mitchell Smyth Meridian Writers’ Group GROSSE ÎLE, Québec—Row after row of white crosses mark the saddest place in Canada, a cemetery on this island in the St. Lawrence estuary downstream from Quebec City.

By Alison Appelbe They say it never rains in southern Egypt — a concept that elevates this desert region, bisected by vast Lake Nasser, in my mind at least, to the status of heaven.