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A Lost World Made by Women

Journeys | Belgium : By RICHARD B. WOODWARD
IF feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest Europe — represented, perhaps, the world’s oldest women’s movement.
A Lost World, Antwerp, Belgium, Europe, Travel, women’s Roman Catholic orderSocial […]

Art Just for the Art’s Sake in Berlin

Globespotters | Berlin Biennial : By KIMBERLY BRADLEY
THE Fifth Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, which runs through June 15, may well be remembered for signaling the beginning of a new curatorial movement: Slow Art.
Unlike the usual megahype that surrounds Berlin’s exploding art scene, the biennial, which opened in early April, takes the opposite tack. Its […]

O Canada, Where Have Your Bargains Gone?

Frugal Traveler | Toronto : By MATT GROSS
ONCE upon a time, not all that long ago, there existed a magical country that was a lot like the United States, only less expensive. Its enchanted currency — the other dollar — allowed Americans to indulge as they could not back home. This delightful fantasyland was called […]

They Keep the Light on for Visitors in Croatia

Journeys | Croatia : By JON BOWERMASTER
Correction Appended
ISLANDS — some 1,200 of them — dot the Adriatic coast of Croatia like a long line of bread crumbs, ranging from two-acre specks to 35-mile-long spines of rock and scrub. Beautiful and remote, the labyrinth stretches for several hundred miles, from the northern coastal town of Rijeka […]

Riding the Waves of Peru

By JULIA CHAPLIN : IT was high tide on a scorching Tuesday, and the choppy beaches around Lima, Peru, were crawling with surfers. There were teenagers in ratty flip-flops carrying short boards patched with duct tape, and bronzed women in wet suits paddling out into the shimmering blue waves. There was even a businessman in […]

A Living Heritage: The Earthen Homes of Yongding County

Heads Up | Fujian, China : By BARBARA KOH
FROM China’s Fujian coast, it’s a grinding drive up narrow roads through villages built around exhausted coal mines to reach the remote mountains of Yongding. Morning mist clings to the slopes of dense trees and brush. Below, in a valley, rests an eerie collection of beige cylindrical […]

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