Lina Zeldovich

A delightful mix of Mediterranean charm, Southern hospitality and exquisite cuisine, served with a side of Caribbean history.

Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black freedom-seekers journeyed south instead of north to a place that promised freedom.

In October 1687, a dugout canoe arrived at the shores of St Augustine, then a settlement in Spanish Florida and now the oldest continuously occupied city in the mainland US. The canoe carried eight men and two women, one of whom was holding a toddler in her arms...

This centuries-old Korean subculture of free-diving women is almost gone.

Yun Yeun Oak, an 80-year-old Korean free diver, brings a tray of seafood to my table. She puts it down and names the contents of the little bowls, each holding a different type of today’s catch. “This is a sea cucumber, this is a sea pineapple, and this is sea urchin,” she says in Korean, as Michelle Hong, the tour guide from Intrepid Travel, translates. The food is so fresh, it still carries the ocean scent with it. I...

French Courchevel and Swiss St Moritz may the most famous of the European ski resorts, but they’re also crowded and pricey. Smaller and less-visited Alpine villages offer more authentic regional experiences, more affordable lift tickets, shorter lines, uncrowded slopes and boundless trails that start or end at your hotel — and sometimes even at your room.

The only thing hotter than Cartagena’s afternoon sun is the cooking oil sizzling in the pots of the city’s street food vendors. The sun in Colombia can burn you in less than 15 minutes, but that oil turns a flattened slice of a green plantain into a fried crispy patacón in just a few seconds. Frying an empanada takes a bit longer. Then the woman gives me the empanada wrapped in a thin napkin from which hot oil drips...

Jackson Madnick, a 76-year-old resident of Wayland, Mass., rarely mows, waters or fertilizes his lawn, and he never sprays it with weed killers. Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round. It emerges green from under the snow, and it keeps its vibrant hue in summer droughts...

Holding my breath and with some trepidation, I jump into the shark-laden waters of Shark Ray Alley—a part of Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize. Right next to me, a swarm of sharks is devouring the fish my boat captain is tossing into the water—and some of them are longer than 10 feet.

It’s barely 8 o’clock on a crisp spring morning and my tour guide, Denis Laberge, is full of energy and excitement. A Québécois for more than 60 years, he knows every corner of this provincial capital in eastern Canada and every bit of its history. We start at Place Royale in the Lower Town of Old Québec, right in front of the Notre-Dame des Victoires church

This sparsely populated Wild West frontier effectively kick-started women's suffrage by granting women the right to vote before they could elsewhere in the US.

On 6 September 1870, Louisa Ann Swain, a grandmother in Laramie, Wyoming, put a clean apron over her house dress, donned a knitted bonnet and got ready for her early morning walk. Swain was 70 years old, still agile and strong, and she had recently moved to Laramie with her husband to live near their son. She took her little bucket and...

Jesse Katz, owner of Aperture Cellars, a California vineyard, removes the plug from a Malbec barrel and listens intensely. “Can you hear the wine talking?” he asks me. I shake my head, thinking he’s joking, but Jesse suggests I hold my ear closer to the barrel. I do as he says and finally discern a gentle crackle, fainter than Rice Krispies snapping in milk. “That’s the sound of malolactic fermentation—the lactic acid bacteria making wine,” he tells me.
“Do you listen to your wines often?” I ...

Our plan was to spend a few days in the Eternal City before heading to Palermo, Sicily’s capital. A plane would get us there in two hours, but all we’d miss the rolling hills of the countryside and the seemingly endless vineyards disappearing into the horizon. Driving would take two days and wear us out. But, trains? Trains—especially sleeper trains—were a great option.

When the world went into lockdown, Andy Katz, a 70-year-old camera pro, pursued his lifelong dream of photographing all 63 of America’s National Parks. The result was a book that embodied the healing powers of nature

The polar bear approaches slowly, its huge paws leaving massive footprints in the fresh snow — closer and closer, until we can almost feel it breathing. Face to face, the bear stares at us with an inquisitive look. We hold our breaths and wonder if maybe we’re too close....

After surviving colonisation, deforestation and enforced labour, Costa Rica’s Indigenous people are reviving traditions and ecosystems lost to the centuries – and visitors are welcome to join in

It’s a crisp Saturday morning and Naschmarkt—Vienna’s famed food market that dates to the 16th century—is bustling with life and provisions. Here, more than 100 stands brim with pastries, breads, cheeses, cured meats and fresh produce. I am hungry, so I eagerly follow my tour guide, to the stand that serves kaiserschmarrn—a light and fluffy shredded pancake eaten with plum and apple…