Welcome to paradise

Much ado about doing nothing — West Indies island resort lets pampered guests slow down for sun, sea, sand and sky

Italians call it il dolce far niente,or the sweet art of doing nothing.
I’m terrible at it. When I travel, the day starts early, ends late and consists of a bathroom-breaks-are-for-wimps kind of itinerary […]

The World Seems the Same From Inside a Hotel

I spent my summer vacation in the Maldives. I snorkeled, I snoozed. I caught up on back issues of the New Yorker. I got to know the local marine life, from the baby sharks and rays that swam up to my villa to a black-and-yellow fish […]

Islands create lures for the passport-weary
New regulations that went into effect in January made passports mandatory for air travel to Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and Bermuda. Suddenly, U.S. travelers were in a mad scramble for the document, which created such a backlog of applications (now estimated at just under 3 million) that the federal government […]

Caribbean trips surprisingly cheap

Would you ever have believed that the Caribbean would become the cheap area in which to vacation and Europe the costlier place? With European currencies surging almost daily against the U.S. dollar, hiking the price of rooms and meals, cost-conscious Americans are flocking to a handful of tropical islands costing less than […]

Marley home ‘inspiring, cheesy’
A visit to the Jamaica birthplace of reggae megastar Bob Marley includes traversing a narrow potholed road, a store with over-the-top T-shirts — and the odour of ganja. A rattling pickup truck honks and squeezes by us on a type of road Jamaicans aptly named a “one-lane two-way.” “Head gown. Head no […]