In last week’s column, while recalling my first tentative foreign-language forays in France, I mentioned one glorious dinner when, thinking I was telling my host family how full I was, I grandly announced to all assembled at the table that I was pregnant. Such linguistic missteps are among the delightful serendipities of travel, and often [...]
One of the most potent lessons of the road is how acts of kindness come back to you twofold and threefold and more. There have been innumerable examples of this in my life, but the one that comes to mind first is the American couple I met on the train from Rome to Vienna, when [...]