It’s no secret that the flat Skagit Valley looks a lot like the Netherlands. It also is filled with that über-Dutch crop – tulips. Now that April is here and all those blooms are painting the fields with vivid yellows, reds and pinks, it makes sense to tour around them on that quintessential Dutch form of transport: the bicycle.
ILULISSAT, Greenland — It’s so cold, they closed the igloos. The icebergs are shivering. Two of my toes are slightly frostbitten. Yesterday my life seriously flashed before my eyes on a dog sled ride through the mountains.
KIRKENES, Norway – It’s nearly 10 on a Friday night and an eerie silence has descended over the 24-room hotel I’m booked into deep in Norway’s northern Finnmark County. The usual racket like dinging elevator doors, the din of the city and faint laughter filtering from the hotel bar simply don’t exist here. Lying in my army green sleeping bag, the only sound I can hear is my own breath pushing against the cold air of my frosty digs.
The same storm that’s set to bring heavy winds to Western Washington this week will also dump up to two feet of snow in the mountains, forecasters said.
SENECA ROCKS, W.Va. – It is hard to miss Seneca Rocks.
“I would argue Europe is better in the shoulder seasons,” said Amy Farley, news editor at Travel + Leisure and author of the magazine’s “Trip Doctor” column. “I was in Florence in October, and it was extraordinary. That said, if you have children and want the ideal weather, summer it is.”
If your flight didn’t depart on time last month from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, you and your fellow passengers were among a small minority of tardy travelers.
Most travelers know to visit the Musee d’Orsay while in Paris or the Guggenheim Museum when in New York City. Yet there are hundreds of buildings that get overlooked, either because of their location or simply the number of sites in the city deemed worth seeing. With jaw-dropping structures in mind, the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have put together a list of the Top 10 Overlooked Stunning Buildings.
Here, in alphabetical order, are 10 places I’d like to see in 2013. Several are cities, one is a state, three are entire nations, and all have interesting things happening in the weeks and months ahead. Will I get to them all? Probably not.
LOS ANGELES — It’s been called, sometimes derisively, a collection of 72 suburbs in search of a city.
I’m the first to admit it: I’m a wimp about winter driving. But I do love train journeys, so the solution to visiting Leavenworth in winter is easy: Take the train. Sure, you have to plan. You have fewer options about winter sports. And you might face Amtrak’s legendary delays. But the bonuses are a carefree trip to the cute Bavarian-style downtown and scenery to die for.
SOUFRIERE, ST. LUCIA, West Indies – The Pitons dominate the southwest coast of St. Lucia.
England’s Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey, has a past that’s every bit as colorful and riveting as the hit “Masterpiece” series filmed within its walls.
A wholesale rearrangement of ticket counters and gates at Sea-Tac begins next week.
If holiday air travel is one of the few times a year you board a plane, you may find that part of flying that most people find the most onerous, the pre-flight security check, has become swifter and less inconvenient for some travelers.
A new storm bearing down on the Northeast today forced the cancellation of two flights from Sea-Tac Airport to two New York-area airports.
Only four flights from Sea-Tac Airport to the East Coast were canceled today as airports in the storm-wracked Eastern seaboard return to near-normal operations.
Airlines canceled 15 flights to major airports in the East and Midwest on Tuesday from Sea-Tac Airport in the wake of megastorm Sandy, but most afternoon and evening flights to those airports returned to normal.
Airlines have cancelled 21 Sea-Tac departures to the East Coast today as Hurricane Sandy makes its landfall in the Northeast.
This third annual event will showcase hard-to-find artisanal wines and microbrews from small Washington producers.
Visitors can embrace autumn at the Cama Beach State Park harvest festival. Family activities include pumpkin and mask decorating, nature design T-shirt painting, fall foliage fabric designing, education about animals that live on the beach and games.
Features writer Craig Sailor takes you on a day trip through the farms, small towns, art spaces and natural areas of South Thurston County that are so peaceful, you might not want to return home.
People looking for a quick getaway have several year-round options at Mount Rainier and Olympic national parks. But some lodges will be closing in the coming weeks.
Alaska Airlines has added a fourth Texas city to its route network from Sea-Tac Airport.
It looks like air fares are going up again this year.
An osprey screeches and dives out of the sky straight down toward the blue waters of Upper Priest Lake in Northern Idaho’s Panhandle. It’s one of the first sights you see coming out on to the 1,300-acre lake from a narrow, forest-lined watery hallway from larger Priest Lake.
Lufthansa flights linking Sea-Tac Airport and Frankfurt were still scheduled to operate today and Wednesday despite a cabin attendants’ strike that has forced cancellation of 300 of the German airline’s flights today.
DALLAS — Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stirs as much debate as this: How you’re dressed.
If you didn’t make plans to take one final adventure for the summer, don’t fret. There are still plenty of events happening across the region to take advantage of this three-day holiday weekend, before the kids head off to school.
20,320-foot Mount McKinley looms large in Alaska, if the weather cooperates and allows you to spot it.
The Palouse region of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho grows a quarter of the lentils in the United States. Since 1989, the National Lentil Festival has celebrated this legume that is consumed by people all over the world.
The Long Beach, Wash., peninsula thrusts itself into the ocean like a swimmer testing the waters with an outstretched arm. It’s only two miles wide but 25 miles long. Packed into that strip are parks, wildlife, charming towns, oysters, berries, creative restaurants and more sand than you could possibly ever use.
The Long Beach Peninsula bills itself as the longest beach in the world. It’s only two miles wide but 25 miles long. Packed into that strip are parks, wildlife, charming towns, oysters, berries, creative restaurants and more sand than you could possibly ever use.
Blues and Seafood offers regional blues bands, fresh seafood, micro-brews, Northwest wine and barbecued Willapa Bay oysters.
Eat your heart out, Seattle. You might think you're the Big City In Washington, but you have nothing to beat LeMay-America's Car Museum, Point Defiance, or the Narrows Bridges. Oh, and that Mountain? It's ours.
Sea-Tac Airport’s 40-year-old North Satellite Terminal will undergo an estimated $230 million remodeling and expansion to bring the terminal up to 21st century standards, the airport’s owner announced this week.
DALLAS — Get ready to spend more on travel. Airlines are raising ticket prices again after a long lull that coincided with falling fuel costs.
Delta Air Lines is canceling the only non-stop flight between Sea-Tac Airport and its hub at Memphis.
If you’re flying this summer, be prepared to kiss your family goodbye at the gate. Even if they’re on the same plane. Airlines are reserving a growing number of window and aisle seats for passengers willing to pay extra. That’s helping to boost revenue but also making it harder for friends and family members who don’t pay this fee to sit next to each other. At the peak of the summer travel season, it might be nearly impossible.
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