Fundamentally, said Candice Criscione, who shares tips for planning family vacations in Italy on her blog the Tuscan Mom, “this is Italy’s message to Americans and other tourists: Get vaccinated before coming to visit. It’s too complicated and expensive to have to get an official Covid test every time you want to enter a museum…
Market Overview Alberta, the rural western Canadian province bordering Montana to the south, has long tethered its fortunes to its largest industries: oil and gas. After a 2014 collapse in oil prices sparked huge financial and job losses, housing prices “crashed” by more than 20 percent, said Kirby Cox, a Realtor at Kirby Cox &…
I was awakened in the predawn hours by a raging downpour. Cold, howling winds were coming off the lake, and the screen door to our half-domed shelter was flapping violently. Huddled with a few other hikers, I quickly realized the value of our lodging’s design: It’s one of the few structures that can withstand the…
“At some point, flights were just canceled and no one was alerted,” Ms. Wareus said. “We spent close to 10 hours in line and they were still checking people in, which was absurd.” Ms. Wareus found a hotel and booked an American Airlines flight home, shelling out $1,300 that she doubts she’ll recover. FlyersRights, a…
Market Overview Hungary, the landlocked Central European nation of hills and plains with about 10 million residents, saw home prices double in the decade between 2010 and the first quarter of 2021, with only two other European Union countries (Estonia and Luxembourg) outpacing it in that growth, according to Eurostat, using data from the Hungarian…
Let’s face it: August in New York can be tough. The heat typically rises. The humidity becomes stifling. At times — particularly on weekends — it can feel like the city has emptied out, as those with the means to do so throw on their out-of-office messages and decamp to second homes or rentals outside…
It’s a sun-spackled morning at Hapuna Beach, like most mornings on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. A turtle the size of our coffee table back home in California surfaces halfway through my swim. It proceeds to stay close by, like an old friend. I laugh, elated — but then a complicated…
A light rain fell as I fought through a sea of masked fighters for a glimpse into the center ring. From a few feet away, I watched as two local fighters struck at each other with their bare fists. Thousands of spectators stood in the stadium bleachers surrounding the fighting pit, their eyes following every…
“I may be optimistic,” he added, “but it is my hope that vaccination progress will increase dramatically over the next 60 to 90 days and that the fourth quarter and early 2022 will still be quite strong.” Mr. Graf is among the few who believe that hybrid professional events, involving both in-person and virtual attendance,…
In 2015, the independent Canadian filmmaker Dianne Whelan set out on what is now known as the Trans Canada Trail, a nearly 17,000-mile recreational trail that spans green paths, roads and waterways from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic Ocean. On Aug. 1, in the company of her parents, partner and…