To step into everyday activities and live like a local is a real joy when traveling. RFT’s vegan/vegetarian editor, Teresa Bergen, takes us olive-harvesting (and eating) in Jordan. When it’s harvest season in Umm Qais, in the autumn, locals eat a lot of olives...
Most people visit the small town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, California, to taste wines. But the town of 12,000 offers special experiences for those who venture off the well-trod vineyard path. Here are a few of my favorites on my recent visit. Tea Lounge Taste of...
Even if a person ate out twice a day, it would take more than a month to try all the vegan restaurants in Montreal. At press time, the number was 66. And that doesn’t count vegetarian restaurants and places with sizable vegetarian sections on their menus. With only...
I happened to arrive in Zihuatanejo on September 15, the eve of Mexican Independence Day. This date celebrates the event in 1810 when Father Miguel Hidalgo announced to a ragtag mob that he just wasn’t going to take it anymore from Spain. Thus began a revolution which...
On fourth floor of the stairway, the ghost meter went wild. This is where a little girl fell to her death in the 1930s. Keith Scales, manager of crescent hotel ghost tours, told our group, “Guests near the stairwell often report being awakened by an attention-getting...
