# Travels with linden


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- [](https://travelswithlinden.com/2025/08/19/26/): On our way to Stillpoint Lodge in Halibut Cove, Alaska. You’ve got to love a place that you can only get to by float plane or boat. Cue the otter. With its lush grounds, spectacular views and comfortable, rustic, tucked-away cabins, Stillpoint is, indeed, a place to rekindle your spirit. The property’s zen gardens include a rope labyrinth than can be used for walking meditation. Talk about meditation. Midnight sunset from the cabin. The next day’s excursion to 13-mile-long Grewingk Glacier, located in Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska’s first state park, proves unforgettable. Who gets to boat past otters and an oyster farm, […]
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- [Writing Tips for Travel Writers](https://travelswithlinden.com/writing-tips-for-travel-writers/): Writing Tips for Travel Writers Pollsters report that 80 percent of Americans want to write a book. Even if half that number dream of travel writing, you’re talking about two out of every five. I’m guessing part of that is because writing sounds easy. Of course, those of us who actually write know different. We also know that the only thing harder than writing is finding a way to make your work stand out, especially with so many others trying to jump into the market. May these travel writing tips by New York Times bestselling writer and travel writing coach Linden Gross help you […]
- [Food & Drink](https://travelswithlinden.com/food-drink/): New Orleans Feasting in New Orleans They say we eat with our eyes. Until you can get to these places to do your own… Read More Dining Italian Italy Comes to Bend Want a change of pace? Just head over to Trattoria Sbandati and let the server know… Read More Paris In the Market If you’re in the market for a true local experience, you want to hit the farmer’s market wherever… Read More Napa & Sonoma Sonoma Snapshot There’s just nothing wrong with starting your Sonoma adventure with a little bubble from… Read More Denver Foodie Mecca When I […]
- [New Orleans Close Up](https://travelswithlinden.com/new-orleans-close-up/): New Orleans Close Up My brother asked me to take detail shots of New Orleans for a film project he was working on. The exercise made me realize that this is a completely different—and completely intimate—way to experience a city. ​I hope the photos below give you ideas of what a difference a close up can make. 
- [INTERNATIONAL](https://travelswithlinden.com/international/): Paris Paris Revisited Most people think there’s only one Paris. They’re wrong. There are many within the city limits… Read More Croatia Cruising Croatia Want to really appreciate the sparse, rugged beauty of Croatia’s Dalmation Coast? Read More Lisbon !Smile – You’re in Lisbon If you haven’t been to Lisbon, I’d suggest you put it on your bucket list… Read More Prague Prague Illustrated If there was ever a city that could speak for itself, Prague is it. Check out these photos and… Read More Sicily The Secrets of Sicily Sicily has always been a land tinged with intrigue. Tourists–especially […]
- [NORTH AMERICA](https://travelswithlinden.com/north-america/): Alaska Stillpoint Stillpoint Lodge allowed me to step out of my life and embrace it in a whole new way. From… Read More Central Oregon Get Your Culture On If dinner and a movie (on TV no less) have been the highlights of too many weekends… Read More San Juan Islands Sailing Into My Life “We dropped anchor, grabbed a bottle of Tabasco, climbed into a dingy and rowed to… Read More New Orleans It’s All in the Details My brother asked me to take detail shots of New Orleans. The exercise made me realize… Read More Salt Spring Island […]
- [Sailing Out of My Comfort Zone -- and Into My Life](https://travelswithlinden.com/sailing-out-of-my-comfort-zone-and-into-my-life/): Sailing Out of My Comfort Zone – – and Into My Life “We dropped anchor, grabbed a bottle of Tabasco, climbed into a dingy and rowed to a tiny oyster-covered island,” my father told me some 20 years ago. “We pried oysters off that rock and ate until we could eat no more.” ​Since then I’ve dreamed of going to the San Juan Islands, an archipelago in Washington that borders Canada. I just never figured I’d be cruising there on a 1924 160′ wooden tall ship which, despite a complete lack of sailing know-how or experience, I would help sail. […]
- [Return to Salt Spring Island](https://travelswithlinden.com/return-to-salt-spring-island/): Return to Salt Spring Island I’ve returned to Salt Spring Island over and over and over again–at least in my mind. After you read the article below, which I wrote for the New York Post, you’ll see why I dream of going back. Unfortunately, the piece ran the weekend before 9/11, so I’m pretty sure that its impact was compromised. I’d sure like to rectify that. Soon! As our seaplane splashes down and taxis over the blue-green water like a skipping rock towards the Salt Spring Island dock, I feel as if we’re skimming our way into a postcard. The […]
- [Denver Humor](https://travelswithlinden.com/denver-humor/): Denver Humor What comes to mind when you think of Denver? The food scene? The art? Or the humor? You’ll find my answer in the photos below.  Take a careful look at the photo below, and you’ll realize that the “necessities” being dispensed  (see left) include breath mints, condoms and Rolaids.   The restaurant below used to be the Olinger Mortuary. Why waste a perfectly cool period neon sign? So they renamed the place linger eatuaries. Now that’s funny!
- [Get Your Culture On](https://travelswithlinden.com/get-your-culture-on/): Get Your Culture On If dinner and a movie (on TV no less) have been the highlights of too many weekends, get your culture on. Check out these twelve events that are sure to inspire your creative streak and feed your soul. 1) Paper Arts Festival – April You may never think about paper pushing the same way after these three consecutive one-day workshops in at the Newport Visual Arts Center that include papermaking, surface design, paper dolls, boxes, decorative book binding, silk screening, paper manipulation, photo books and beads. 2) Spring Unveiling Arts Festival – May Treat yourself to a weekend of discovering […]
- [The Perfect Escape from Winter's Rains](https://travelswithlinden.com/the-perfect-escape-from-winters-rains/): The Perfect Escape from Winter’s Rains Admit it. You’re tired of the rain and the gray. Then pile in your car and escape to Bend with its 300 sunny days a year. Whether you’re into snow sports or prefer to play indoors when it’s cold, this Central Oregon getaway has something for everyone. Skiing Mt. Bachelor Whether you ski downhill and Cross country, Mt. Bachelor with its sweeping vistas ranging from high desert lava beds to the nearby Three Sisters’ peaks beckons. Downhillers can choose from seven high-speed quads serving terrain that ranges from black diamond expert to novice-friendly. Spring […]
- [Mt-Bachelor-in-Spring](https://travelswithlinden.com/mt-bachelor-in-spring/): Mt. Bachelor in Spring It’s May. With Mt. Bachelor still open until Memorial Day–but only from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.–my friend, Leah, and I are out on the hill before 9 a.m. After two hours of zero lift lines and fast turns on surprisingly good snow, we hang it up. We both have to head to work. Luckily, I get to indulge in my version of a Bend Double before then. Most locals define a Bend Double as skiing in the morning followed by a 50-mile bike ride or 18 holes of golf. My Bend Double involves taking my […]
- [Three Perfect Days in Bandon](https://travelswithlinden.com/three-perfect-days-in-bandon/): Three Perfect Days in Bandon If you’re a golfer, you already know what your three perfect days in Bandon are going to entail. You’ll be on the links at one of Bandon’s five (!) world-class golf courses where Oregon’s coast—carved by the elements—adds both challenge and majesty to the game. “Golf was born on rugged, wind-swept land just like this,” claims the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort website. “Every hole, every hazard, every shot is defined by nature’s infinite presence…Amongst the massive dunes and hearty pines, you’ll discover golf in its purest state. Where nature is embraced, not conquered. And where the traditions […]
- [Ashland - Shakespeare & More](https://travelswithlinden.com/ashland-shakespeare-more/): Ashland – Shakespeare & More One look at Ashland, Oregon and it was love at first sight. With its historic, tree-lined streets and turn-of-the-century Victorian homes, the town—nestled in the verdant foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains just 15 miles from the southern Oregon border—is downright charming. The main draw, however, was the outdoor Shakespeare theatre I’d heard so much about. Without much ado, my friend and I dumped our bags and headed there without so much as an upward glance. The stage of the amphitheater juts out from a stately Tudor facade like a wide castle moat. Sitting under the open sky, I […]
- [Kid-Friendly Florence](https://travelswithlinden.com/kid-friendly-florence/): Kid-Friendly Florence What do you do when your pre-teen niece and nephew come to visit—or you have kids of your own who need a school’s-out-now-what adventure? You obviously beeline to the Oregon coast. Lured by the promise of riding dune buggies in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area that meant Florence. Extending more than 40 miles from Florence and to Coos Bay, the dunes include steep inclines that rise 500 feet as well as wide, rippled, flat stretches. I felt like I was motoring through a living sculpture dotted here and there with sparse plant life. My nephew had a different take […]
- [Slumming in Sonoma](https://travelswithlinden.com/slumming-in-sonoma/): Slumming in Sonoma: It’s Rough, but Someone Has To Do It The first time I visited California’s Russian River, I was prepared for beauty. I wasn’t prepared to want to move there. Just outside of Healdsburg, the oak-canopied Westside Road curls alongside the Russian River past vine-covered hills that rise and fall into each other like the sloping waves of a topsy-turvy sea. One bend reveals a farm where visitors sample local produce, another the Hop Kiln Estate, a national landmark hops-drying barn built by Italian stonemasons in 1905. Farmhouses and old Victorians nestle in pockets of cottonwoods, or perch […]
- [Playing Tourist in Portlandia](https://travelswithlinden.com/playing-tourist-in-portlandia/): Playing Tourist in Portlandia I’m sure you’ve been to Portland just like I’m sure you’ve heard of—or even watched—“Portlandia”, the hit TV series that satirizes Oregon’s most populated city. I certainly had done all of the above. But to be honest, I’d never just played tourist there. So one weekend, I decided to join a couple of friends who were thinking about moving from Denver and spend a couple of days discovering the city behind the parody. My friends had warned me not to “get all happy-dancing” at the possibility of their trading Denver for Portland due to the latter’s […]
- [Alaska's Secret Garden](https://travelswithlinden.com/alaskas-secret-garden/): Alaska’s Secret Garden When I started fantasizing about moving to a ski-resort and bartending, I knew that it was time to give myself a break from my peripatetic work pace. “Go to Gustavus by Glacier Bay,” a friend recommended when I mentioned that I’d been thinking about Alaska. “It’s my favorite place in the whole world.” With that kind of recommendation, who was I to say no? Two weeks later, I was on my way north to a tiny town of 400 located at the mouth of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Even from the air, Alaska looks […]
- [Eagle Bonanza](https://travelswithlinden.com/eagle-bonanza/): Eagle Bonanza On your way home, swing by Crane Prairie Reservoir. That’s what I did. The panorama photo I took pretty much says it all. If you want to see eagles, head to Wickiup Reservoir, about 60 miles southwest of Bend off the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway this fall. Don’t forget your telephoto camera lens if you want shots like these, taken by my brother Jeff Gross.
- [Discovering Eastern Oregon](https://travelswithlinden.com/discovering-eastern-oregon/): Discovering Eastern Oregon Want a change of pace? Just head over to Trattoria Sbandati and let the server know you want to dine family style. With co-owner and chef Juri Sbandati sending out dishes that only a native Florentine could produce from the semi-open kitchen just a few paces away, you’ll swear you’re in a trattoria in Italy rather than one at the foot of Bend’s College Way. My food posse and I started what would turn out to be an unforgettable feast with a single jumbo scallop each, pan-seared to dark golden crispy perfection yet still translucent and velvety. […]
- [Contact](https://travelswithlinden.com/contact/): Contact Linden@LindenGross.com
- [About Linden](https://travelswithlinden.com/about-linden/): About Linden Take a bestselling writer, editor and writing coach, add a travel background on both the personal and professional fronts, and you end up with, well, Travel with Linden & Friends. I blame my parents. I grew up around the world because of my Dad’s work as a foreign correspondent and editor for LOOK Magazine. I attended first grade in Rio de Janeiro at Chapeuzinho Vermelho (Portuguese for Little Red Riding Hood). After two years in Rio, we moved to Manhattan for a couple of years before heading to Paris for five. From learning to ski in Portillo (safe […]
- [Tell Your Story](https://travelswithlinden.com/tell-your-story/): Tell Your Story “You should write my story,” the woman in the bar stool next to me exclaimed having discovered that I was the writer behind Julia “Butterfly” Hill’s national bestseller The Legacy of Luna. I’ve probably heard that line more than a hundred times in my life. For the longest time, I simply made my excuses and then scurried to the nearest escape hatch as quickly as possible. Over the years, however, I’ve realized that most people do have a story to tell—especially when travel has added a liberal dash of spice to their lives, changing them forever in the […]
- [Self-Discovery Through Travel & Writing](https://travelswithlinden.com/self-discovery-through-travel-writing/): Self-Discovery Through Travel & Writing Why do we write? Certainly not because it’s easy. The only people who think writing is easy haven’t written much—or at all. No, most of us write either because we have something we need to say or because we have ideas we want to explore. I like Hunter S. Thompson’s take on writing, which he shared in a letter that was subsequently published in a collection titled The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman: I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively … […]
- [Wining in the Sierra Foothills](https://travelswithlinden.com/wining-in-the-sierra-foothills/): Wining in the Sierra Foothills Murphys is a wine taster’s dream come true. The charming town boasts close to two dozen wineries, many located on a stretch of Main Street that’s a short stroll from the historic Murphy’s Hotel.    Murphys is a wine taster’s dream come true. The charming town boasts close to two dozen wineries, many located on a stretch of Main Street that’s a short stroll from the historic Murphy’s Hotel.    Established in 1978, Stevenot is one of the original wineries in Calaveras County. And yes, this is the region that inspired Mark Twain’s short story […]
- [Food with a View](https://travelswithlinden.com/food-with-a-view/): Food with a View Dining at Black Butte would be a treat simply based on the view alone. But then there’s the food. My friends and I had been wanting to return ever since seeing the Lodge’s new menu. As usual, the meal didn’t disappoint. Our only struggle was agreeing on which dishes, all of which seemed to bring a new twist to old classics, were our absolute favorites. The beef tenderloin carpaccio rang my bell and then some. The meat—drizzled with a tangy mustard-horseradish sauce and served with shaved red onion, capers and arugula—was cut so finely I barely […]
- [Movable Feast - Paris](https://travelswithlinden.com/movable-feast-paris/): Movable Feast – Paris You already know the bad news. Paris is expensive. How expensive? Dinner can easily set you back $100 a person. The good news is that you can dine extremely well for half that if you hit the locals’ favorite bistros.   I love these neighborhood bistros as much for their food as for their totally Parisian attitude. In the late ‘90s, I returned to a now-defunct favorite in the Montparnasse district, Chez Pierre, that specialized in country fare from Burgundy. As a devoted fan of that cuisine, I struggled over the menu. I’d had a hankering […]
- [Sushi in Oregon's High Desert](https://travelswithlinden.com/sushi-in-oregons-high-desert/): Sushi in Oregon’s High Desert There’s just nothing like deliciously creative sushi in the company of good friends to lift one’s spirits. And in Bend, two sushi restaurants will blast those spirits right into space. Below, you’ll find two reviews. I hope for your sake that you can experience both restaurants for yourself.   Off the Menu and Out of This World​ Ever since I was introduced to the intoxicatingly delicious and downright seductive off-the-menu fare at 5 Fusion, I’ve yearned to repeat the experience. While some people dream of sugar-plums dancing in their heads, my dreams were of delicate […]
- [All About Oysters](https://travelswithlinden.com/all-about-oysters/): All About Oysters If you’ve read a lot of the articles on this site, this piece may seem, well, redundant. On the other hand, if you love oysters, the photos below are worth the repetition. Besides, I’ve thrown in a bunch of new ones.   Oysters for three at New Orleans’ Superior Grill. No sharing. Still in New Orleans–grilled oysters at Casamento’s. Absolutely not to be missed. There are so many reasons to visit Stillpoint Lodge in Alaska’s Halibut Cove. These local oysters, harvested just a few hours before being served, are just twelve of them.   What better way […]
- [Lick Your Chops - Sisters, OR](https://travelswithlinden.com/lick-your-chops-sisters-or/): Lick Your Chops – Sisters, OR If you haven’t tried Chops, you’re missing out. For starters, the Sisters restaurant, which features live entertainment Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, is downright beautiful, with its high ceiling, rustic beams and posts, and wood-burning, floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace. Even better, the food lives up to its surroundings in a monster way. Every dish we tried showcased Chef Grant Dixson’s masterful hand when it comes not only to taste but to texture.   My food posse and I started out with a round of first-rate craft cocktails, hot bread studded with caraway seeds and served […]
- [How Do You Say Worth the Drive in Italian?](https://travelswithlinden.com/how-do-you-say-worth-the-drive-in-italian/): How Do You Say Worth the Drive in Italian? Marcello’s Italiana Cucina, which has been in Sunriver since 1980, is an institution. Institutions can often live up to their billing, but they seldom surprise. So while I expected quality upscale Italian American food during the dinner I recently shared there with friends, I didn’t expect to be wowed by unanticipated taste combinations. We started our meal well, if predictably, with fried baby calamari served with marinara and Dijon cream dipping sauces. “Anyone who likes calamari would like this dish,” my friend Leah said of the tasty, lightly fried baby squid. […]
- [Home on the Range](https://travelswithlinden.com/home-on-the-range/): Home on the Range We settled in at our table at Brasada Ranch’s Range Restaurant and Bar, gazed at the panoramic view of the Cascades, and ordered drinks as well as two boards topped with small offerings including a variety-pack of warm olives with citrus (oh yah!), crispy fried asparagus with a paprika aioli (double oh yay!), a tasty lightly smoked trout mousse with picked red onions, and deviled eggs with candied bacon atop a splash of bourbon-maple sauce. The latter’s play of salt with a hint of sweet would be re-echoed through the rest of the dinner.   We tried […]
- [Foodie Mecca - Denver](https://travelswithlinden.com/foodie-mecca-denver/): Foodie Mecca – Denver They say you eat with your eyes. I would suggest that while that’s a great start, you don’t want to leave it at that when it comes to Denver. As my dad used to say, “Vaux le voyage.” Translation: It’s worth the trip. To be honest, apart from the ramen at Bones, perhaps the most memorable meal of a ridiculously sensational four-day food tour, I no longer remember what was what or where. But I can tell you that my favorite eateries after Bones were Spuntino, a rustic joint serving Italian classics, and Stoic & Geunine, a modern seafood restaurant […]
- [Sonoma Snapshot](https://travelswithlinden.com/sonoma-snapshot/): Sonoma Snapshot There’s just nothing wrong with starting your Sonoma adventure with a little bubbly from Iron Horse. I love the funky, outdoor tasting bar as much as I love the view and the fact that this is an independent, family-owned winery. Did I mention that from June through October you can get fresh-shucked oysters to go with your sparkling wine? Marimar Estates had me at their Mediterranean architecture, the perfect setting for their Spanish wines, and a patio with its bright flowers and surrounding lush greenery. Of course, they also had me at their sustainability practices that include creating habitats for […]
- [In the Market - Paris](https://travelswithlinden.com/in-the-market-paris/): In the Market – Paris To know me is to know how much I love open-air markets. That probably stems from Mom taking my brother and me to the farmer’s market in Rio when we were 4 and 6 years old, respectively.  I guess that explains why I’m so drawn to the street markets in Paris, as well as those that feel like street markets even though they’re under cover. I hope these photos make you a fan as well.   These three photos should convince you to hit the annual Foire de Paris that’s been held since 1904 for […]
- [Italy Comes to Bend](https://travelswithlinden.com/italy-comes-to-bend/): Italy Comes to Bend Want a change of pace? Just head over to Trattoria Sbandati and let the server know you want to dine family style. With co-owner and chef Juri Sbandati sending out dishes that only a native Florentine could produce from the semi-open kitchen just a few paces away, you’ll swear you’re in a trattoria in Italy rather than one at the foot of Bend’s College Way. My food posse and I started what would turn out to be an unforgettable feast with a single jumbo scallop each, pan-seared to dark golden crispy perfection yet still translucent and […]
- [Feasting Through New Orleans](https://travelswithlinden.com/feasting-through-new-orleans/): Feasting Through New Orleans They say we eat with our eyes. Until you can get to the places below to do your own celebrating, I hope you enjoy. Bon appetit!   We fell into oysters followed by shrimp and grits at Superior Seafood on our first night. Lunch at Butcher the next day. ​ Hello New Orleans!   Can you say 25-cent lunch martinis at  Commander’s Palace? And yes, that’s the crab we enjoyed (see below).    Nothing wrong with crab cakes, cocktails in the garden or crawfish in our Airbnb. But it’s hard to beat having cocktails at the Carousel Bar in the […]
- [A Taste of Indonesia](https://travelswithlinden.com/a-taste-of-indonesia/): A Taste of Indonesia During a trip in the spring of 2013, travelholic Julia Gaultier captured a taste of Indonesia. Call this a teaser or an amuse bouche. We’ll follow up with a main course when the right material hits.    Wok on street in Jakarta.    Indonesia’s rich history of puppetry hits the streets.      Waiting?     At work in Gili Trawangan.  
- [Work-Play Down Under](https://travelswithlinden.com/work-play-down-under/): Work-Play Down Under So you want to spend a few months Down Under and don’t exactly have a budget that’s super accommodating? When Julia Gaultier needed a change of pace, she did a work-live-play stint in Australia and New Zealand, which she chronicled with her camera and quips.    Enjoying the European winter.     A bit of Tibet in the middle of Queensland at the Chenrezig Institute, a Buddhist retreat and study center in the hills of the Sunshine Coast. That’s Queensland for you. Building up a bamboo fence in the middle of nowhere. Talk about off the grid! Oh hey. Just […]
- [Magical Railway Tour](https://travelswithlinden.com/magical-railway-tour/): Magical Railway Tour World traveler and talented photographer Julia Gaultier didn’t just decide to travel from Moscow to Bejing on the Trans-Siberian Railway. She also stopped off in Mongolia and then headed to South Korea.   Russia! Day 1 – Saint Petersburg.    Just another fountain full of watermelons in a mall.   When the sausages are the priciest items in the supermarket… Monument to Lenin in Irkutsk. Kul Sharif Mosque Lake Baikal – Khuzir, Olkhon island. Traditional Buryat pagan sacred poles, Lake Baikal. From Russia to Mongolia.Our tour guide in the desert. Hustai National Park.   Our ride this past […]
- [Rafting Croatia](https://travelswithlinden.com/rafting-croatia/): Rafting Croatia Nothing like a surprise. Who knew that we would have the chance to go whitewater rafting during an island cruise in Croatia, let alone in a lush canyon that looks nothing like the semi-arid landscape along the coast. We all paddled like crazy for most of the three-hours on the Cetina River.   On this rapid, we had to assume the position when our guide yelled “Bomba!” and let him do all the work. That was fine with me.
- [Un-Shopping in Paris](https://travelswithlinden.com/un-shopping-in-paris/): Un-Shopping in Paris ​A lot of people go to Paris to shop. I’m not one of them.  Still, I always make sure to swing by La Tuile a Loup, a delightfully cluttered little store in the fifth arrondissement, where every spare corner is piled high with regional French dishware, baskets and linens. Located at 35 rue Daubenton, each visit to La Tuile a Loup yields new treasures.   When my friend and I find a selection of whimsical bowls from Auvergne adorned with hand-painted birds, farm animals, and fish ($50), we lay them all out on the floor to determine […]
- [A Taste of Normandy](https://travelswithlinden.com/a-taste-of-normandy/): A Taste of Normandy Normandy may just be two hours from Paris, but it’s worlds apart. When I lived in Paris as a kid, my parents rented a weekend house just a few miles from Dieppe in Varengeville. I had only been back in Normandy once in the years (and years and years) that have passed. So when an opportunity presented itself to head back there, I jumped on it.  When I visited the house, absolutely nothing had changed apart from the type of cows in the adjacent field. Same hundred-year-old brick house that I had adorned with neon daisy stickers that, it […]
- [Vienna's Distinct Faces](https://travelswithlinden.com/viennas-distinct-faces/): The Secrets of Sicily By the time I hit Vienna after being in Europe for four weeks, I was more interested in doing laundry and lounging in the sunlight on my friends’ wide-body couch than actually sightseeing. Still, I did manage to get a hint of why a number of my friends swear that Vienna is Europe’s best–or at least most livable–city.  A stroll in downtown Vienna includes stumbling onto an organ concert at St. Peter’s and an outdoor screening of an opera. The next day, while my traveling companion bike along the Danube, another friend and I take a trolley […]
- [The Secrets of Sicily](https://travelswithlinden.com/the-secrets-of-sicily/): The Secrets of Sicily Sicily has always been a land tinged with intrigue. Tourists–especially the Europeans–have discovered the lush riviera-like eastern coast. But much of the rest of the island remains a secret. It’s a secret worth exploring. The first tip in unveiling the Sicilian mystery is to do it during the off-season if possible. Summers are hot, hot, hot. Even Sicilians say so. And while February through May can bring the occasional shower, the sprinkles are more than compensated by the blossoming fruit trees, fields of wildflowers and orchards ladened with some of the best blood oranges you’ll ever […]
- [Prague Illustrated](https://travelswithlinden.com/prague-illustrated/): Prague Illustrated Prague has gotten so popular that it’s hard to move down Old Town’s cobblestone main streets. So while it’s worth checking out this hub’s landmark attractions which include the medieval Astronomical Clock and the Gothic Church of Our Lady Before Týn on Old Town Square, you might want to plan to spend most of your time away from the main tourist attractions.  On the other hand, the handful of photos below should convince you that Prague is worth the trouble, regardless of how many swarms of visitors you have to brave.  Prague’s National Theatre provides a total contrast to the Lennon Wall […]
- [Smile - You're in Lisbon!](https://travelswithlinden.com/smile-youre-in-lisbon/): Smile – You’re in Lisbon! If you haven’t been to Lisbon, I’d suggest you put it on your bucket list. It’s got to be one of the friendliest places in Europe. Just bring your sneakers. Between the hills, the stairs, the colorfully tiled buildings and the gorgeous (but wonky) tiled sidewalks, you’ll need them.   I flew into Lisbon from Paris at the end of April, after passport complications prevented my sister-in-low from boarding with me. I wondered if they were contagious when the official, extra vigilant due to the pope’s upcoming visit, scrutinized my passport for more than three […]
- [Cruising Croatia](https://travelswithlinden.com/cruising-croatia/): Cruising Croatia My three friends and I start our cruise along Croatia’s Dalmation Coast in Split, staying inside the walls of the palace built by Roman Emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century(!). As usual, I love the street markets–for food and crafts–the best, although the architecture comes in a close second.  On the way to Dubrovnik (see below) after dolphins join us during breakfast. Next, on to Korcula, a tiny, old town flanked by water on three sides and known as little Dubrovnik. Lovely. Every day we stop at a swim spot before lunch on the boat […]
- [Stillpoint Lodge , Halibut cove](https://travelswithlinden.com/stillpoint-lodge-halibut-cove/): Still Dreaming of Stillpoint Lodge On our way to Stillpoint Lodge in Halibut Cove, Alaska. You’ve got to love a place that you can only get to by float plane or boat. With its lush grounds, spectacular views and comfortable, rustic, tucked-away cabins, Stillpoint is, indeed, a place to rekindle your spirit The property’s zen gardens include a rope labyrinth than can be used for walking meditation.   Talk about meditation. Midnight sunset from the cabin. The next day’s excursion to 13-mile-long Grewingk Glacier, located in Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska’s first state park, proves unforgettable. Who gets to boat past otters […]
- [Paris Revisited](https://travelswithlinden.com/paris-revisited/): Paris Revisited Most people think there’s only one Paris. They’re wrong. There are many within the city limits. So on my most recent visit, I set out to rediscover them all. While springtime in Paris sounds romantic, I remember from the years I spent here as a kid that it’s often cold and rainy. That’s exactly how my four weeks here started out. So when it’s sunny, you bolt outside. I headed for Montmartre and managed to have lunch in an outdoor café called Le Relais de la Butte. Paris may have one of the world’s best public transportation systems, […]
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