There’s no better culinary way to celebrate Fat Tuesday than digging into a stuffed semla – a cardamon-spiced wheat bun filled with gooey almond paste and topped off with the heaviest whipped cream in town. This Scandinavian pastry is designed to fatten you up in time for forty (40) days of Lent, and just 3-5 [...]

If you’ll be in the DC area this weekend, be sure to stop by the Adventures in Travel Expo. Totally bummed that I would be missing it this year, but I did hit the expo last year and mused about it on Matador Travel under a post titled Adventure comes to town. Beth Whitman, author [...]

For those transitioning into life in a new city, there’s that period. You know. The one wedged squarely between mere traveler and bona fide local. Between a few basic phrases and a couple insider jokes. That ongoing period called immersion. No doubt, the key to getting beneath a culture is to learn its language, but [...]