Sean ConwayJun 26, 20205 minHow to Drink Coffee Like a EuropeanOne thing a lot of coffee-loving Americans learn when traveling in Europe is just how difficult it is to get an iced coffee, especially a...
Sean ConwayJun 22, 20204 minHugging the Edge of the Earth in Big SurLast year, the full stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that carves through California’s Big Sur finally reopened after rockslides rendered ...
Sean ConwayJun 20, 20206 minTake a Self-Guided Jaws Tour on Martha’s VineyardI’ve loved the movie Jaws since before I’d even seen it. I remember it playing at the North Reading Cinema for the entirety of the summer...
Sean ConwayJun 17, 20204 minThe Swiss Mountain Village of Mürren is Every Bit Worth the EffortYou can only get there by cable car, a nearly vertical elevation of 5374 feet above sea level, the last stop on a chugging train that tra...
Sean ConwayJun 15, 20205 minThat Time in Galway When the Majestic Cliffs of Moher Got Beat by a Puppet ShowWe had a couple tours booked in advance of our arrival in Galway, Ireland last year: the Aran Islands and the Cliffs of Moher. That left ...
Sean ConwayJun 13, 20206 minQ: Do We Fly All the Way to Europe Just for Ice Cream & Gelato? A: Possibly…I mean, well, probably.Here’s a little anecdote: on my first trip to Europe in 2005 I spent five weeks in Montpellier, France as part of my MFA residency. I lov...
Sean ConwayJun 11, 20207 minWhat We Don’t Photograph: the Other Half of TravelWe canceled Iceland this week. Postponed it, I keep telling myself. Just postponed. Regardless, this summer’s trip is off. With a lot of ...
Sean ConwayJun 6, 20204 minGhosts of World War IIEurope can be certainly appreciated on a purely aesthetic level, for its ancient architecture, awe-inspiring gothic cathedrals, and quain...
Sean ConwayApr 26, 20208 minYou Can’t Go Back Again (Or Can You?): Returning to Venice + Risking It AllI was hesitant to add magical Venice to our recent trip to Italy. I’d been there before, back in 2005 when I was a graduate student beginnin
Sean ConwayApr 24, 20203 minThis Guy Anthony Bourdain Looks Kinda FamiliarI never knew Anthony Bourdain, of course, yet there was something familiar about him to me—his laugh, his unfiltered, sometimes abrasive can
Sean Conway Jan 14 6 min I Can See for Miles and Miles in Majestic Norway I’ve has this theory for a while now that being able to train our eyes on a distant point is good for our mental health. In other words, ...
Sean Conway Jan 8 7 min You Want it, They Got It in Amsterdam Amsterdam was the third city on our whirlwind 2013 European adventure, and the first that I’d fallen in love with. I liked our days in Lo...
Sean Conway Jan 14 6 min I Can See for Miles and Miles in Majestic Norway I’ve has this theory for a while now that being able to train our eyes on a distant point is good for our mental health. In other words, ...
Sean Conway Jan 8 7 min You Want it, They Got It in Amsterdam Amsterdam was the third city on our whirlwind 2013 European adventure, and the first that I’d fallen in love with. I liked our days in Lo...
Sean Conway Jan 14 6 min I Can See for Miles and Miles in Majestic Norway I’ve has this theory for a while now that being able to train our eyes on a distant point is good for our mental health. In other words, ...
Sean Conway Jan 8 7 min You Want it, They Got It in Amsterdam Amsterdam was the third city on our whirlwind 2013 European adventure, and the first that I’d fallen in love with. I liked our days in Lo...
Sean Conway Dec 30, 2020 3 min A One-Night Stand in Bruges, Belgium Our first European adventure as a couple, back in 2013, took us to five countries in two-plus weeks, beginning with a couple days in Lond...
Sean Conway Dec 2, 2020 5 min Turned on by Off-Season Ogunquit I’ve written about coastal Maine before, specifically about our road trip up to Bar Harbor, and there was no shortage of great seaside tow...
Sean Conway Oct 25, 2020 7 min Stockholm, I'm Home Sweden had been on my radar for a long time. During my MFA program, I’d spent three summers studying in the south of France and Madrid, S...
Sean Conway Sep 29, 2020 6 min It's Always Travel Season (Even When It's Not) Call me a technophobe, but I’ve always worried about all the photos people take and have on their phones, or PC hard drives, or stored in...
Sean Conway Aug 30, 2020 9 min In Hawaii, Things Keep Getting Better and Better We joined my brother, his wife, and their then-eight month old daughter on an ambitious Hawaii adventure in 2018. They’d been three time—...
Sean Conway Aug 21, 2020 11 min Where it Began: An Overdue Return to Lake Winnipesaukee Throughout the first half of the 1970s, my family owned a camper and lot at a summer trailer park on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire ...
Sean Conway Aug 16, 2020 5 min An Abbey Road Pilgrimage This past September marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ classic album Abbey Road, which included the iconic tracks...
Sean Conway Aug 12, 2020 4 min Room to Breathe in France’s Alsace Region It was an ambitious trip abroad this summer—a week in Belfast, Northern Ireland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, then almost three weeks o...
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