
Finding real flavors in the low country
The Lee Bros. talk about where to eat home-cooked cuisine when traveling in Charleston
Friday, May 17, 2013

The Lee Bros. talk about where to eat home-cooked cuisine when traveling in Charleston

After decades of declining growth, Ohios third-largest city is on a huge upswing, pumping billions of dollars into new development and revitalization. In less than 10 years, the city has transformed itself back into a growing, bustling destination as businesses and residents flock to downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.

Lush and lovely Napa Valley has never been an inexpensive place. In the late 19th century, writer Robert Louis Stevenson moved his honeymoon to the rustic but free setting of an abandoned mining camp when the $10-a-week going rate for Calistoga hotels proved too much for his slender purse.

The Abu Dhabi Louvre is building its collection to open in 2015, one of the centerpieces of a planned cultural district that will also include a branch of New York’s Guggenheim and a national museum.

With the movie “42” bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

While Bucharest is messy, overcrowded and shabby in parts, Romanias capital also hums with a cozy, vibrant and seductive Byzantine charm.
Several years ago I was traveling through the Missouri Ozarks when I came across a 100-year-old grist mill near Eminence. It was a rustic structure perched on the edge of a turquoise spring.
The Kansas City Star’s Travel Photo Contest is open to amateur photographers of any age who are residents of Missouri or Kansas.