Celebrating the Solstice at Stonehenge
In the predawn darkness, a procession of druid priests in white robes carry banners by the monoliths of Stonehenge, the ancient British archaeological site. There is an aroma of burning sage; a bagpipe calls in the distance. As dawn approaches, fever-pitched drumming mounts. If you hadn’t already felt the power in the stones at this […]
Smiles Away From Home: Acts of Kindness That Saved the Trip
Because of a rental car mishap, it was well after dark by the time Catherine Dupree and her father arrived in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, during a vacation in 2006. As they drove around the city, trying in vain to navigate to their hotel (this was well before the days of reliable mapping […]
Climate Protesters Arrested After Spraying Stonehenge With Orange Paint
Two climate activists were arrested in England after they sprayed an orange powder on the monoliths at Stonehenge in what they said was an attempt to bring attention to the climate impact of fossil fuels. The attack on the prehistoric site came on Wednesday as the stones would draw the attention of people marking the […]
Traveling During a Heat Wave: Tips and Precautions
Follow our updates for the latest on the heat wave across the U.S. It’s set to be another scorching summer, with extreme and prolonged heat waves forecast across many parts of the United States and Europe. The stifling conditions could impact millions of travelers and wreak havoc on vacations at some of the world’s most […]
5 Places to Visit for NYC Pride 2024
For decades, visitors flocking to New York for Pride every June found plenty of packed bars and jubilant parties but no easy way to engage with the city’s rich L.G.B.T.Q. history. Even the area around Sheridan Square, the center of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising that catalyzed the gay liberation movement, had little to see for […]
How to Throw a Greek Summer Party
When guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m. on the last weekend in May, they grabbed cool glasses of Greek rosé before retreating into the concrete-clad boutique. Its founder, Maria Lemos, who grew up in Greece, opened the shop in the city’s historic center, Plaka, in 2023, ten years after […]
How to Replace Your Lost Passport
While just about every other document is accessible online, a lost passport is one of the last analog emergencies that can derail an international trip. Here’s a guide to replacing a lost passport according to how fast you need it, how much money you have to spare and where you live. (The process for last-minute […]
Why Cover Saudi Arabia as a Travel Destination?
When my Travel story about Saudi Arabia was published online last week, some readers bristled. Why, they wanted to know, had The New York Times’s Travel team devoted so much time and effort to a country whose authoritarian government has committed grievous human rights abuses? Why did the kingdom deserve our attention? How much had […]
Did You Buy a Disneyland ‘Dream Key’? Disney May Owe You Money.
People who paid nearly $1,400 for an annual pass to Disneyland will begin receiving checks in the mail this month from a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Disney of misleading customers into believing that the program carried “no blockout dates.” More than 100,000 people who bought the Dream Key annual pass […]
Opinion | The Beauty of Embracing Aging
As Evelyn Couch said to Ninny Threadgoode in Fannie Flagg’s “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe”: “I’m too young to be old and too old to be young. I just don’t fit anywhere.” I think about this line often, this feeling of being out of place, particularly in a culture that obsessively glorifies […]