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Political Stew?
In January 1950, Victor Biaka-Boda, a former witch doctor representing the Ivory...
Beyond the Pale
Gordon Davies, a retiring chain-smoking professor of Modern History at Trinity C...
Sitting Pretty
Oliver Herford was traveling on a crowded streetcar one day with his young nephe...
Opportunity Knocks
Despite their position in Boston society, the Cabots were not held in high estee...
Parthenon 1, Shaq 0?
Following a trip to Greece, Shaquille O'Neal was asked whether he had visited th...
Special Delivery
"I was nearly mobbed by autograph hunters and other fans at Charing Cross statio...
S.S. Halliburton
When famed American adventurer Richard Halliburton announced his plan to swim th...
Close Shave?
Humor ran like a rich vein through the Marx brothers' family. "Because we were a...
Mandolin
"In Paris, James and Gloria Jones's friend Jean Cartel owned a popular bar and r...
Wise-Muller
In 1959, while Fidel Castro's communist rebels were fighting Fulgencio Batista's...
One-Way Trichet?
Making his way toward Paris one day, the impecunious Rabelais found himself stra...
Spartan Accomodation
Dr. Johnson possessed an intense distaste for all things Scottish. On an excursi...
Art Louver?
Upon his return home after a visit to Paris one year, Humphrey Davy was asked wh...
Sitwell's Egg
"The Sitwell Egg, invented by Sir George Sitwell, had a yolk of smoked meat, a w...
Wake-Up Call?
"When you're on a book tour," Studs Terkel once explained, "you get a little haz...
Deductive Reasoning?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, ofte...
Lakey Lane
William Plomer, visiting Birmingham for the first time, was intrigued by the des...
Waterloo
One day Montgomery hopped into a London taxi. "Waterloo," he declared. "Station?...
One Way Ticket
On the way to a confirmation ceremony one day, the notoriously absentminded bish...
English as She is Spoke (long)
Undeterred by his limited grasp of the English language, Pedro Carolino once wro...
Bent on Traveling (long)
In August 1975, Michael Murphy left his home in Stevenage bent on traveling arou...
Ball Room?
Early in his career Oliver Herford was perpetually short of money. Accordingly, ...
Will Rogers: Nail-Biter?
Will Rogers once sent his young niece a picture postcard from Paris. "See what w...
1-2-3 Snake
While shooting a film in a jungle in the Philippines, Michael Caine was warned a...
Cafe Central
Ferenc Molnar's affinity for the Cafe Central in Budapest was akin to Sartre's l...
Hot Advice
Virgin Records founder Richard Branson, famed for his love of adventure, once of...
Hitchhiker
Abraham Lincoln was walking into Springfield one day when he was overtaken by a ...
Classic Groucho
The day after his retirement, Groucho Marx, having long planned a trip to Paris,...
Layers of Astonishment (long)
Samuel Alexander once rode his bicycle from Manchester to Liverpool for an overn...
Ben Folds 500?
Ben Folds was once asked whether he was seeing anyone. "Yes, I'm seeing 'anyone'...
Go East, Young Man?
In October 1863, after a successful lecture tour along the eastern seaboard, hum...
Space Cadet
In May 2001, the California investment banker Dennis Tito publicly squandered $2...
Good Sport
One day Winston Churchill's wife and Edward Marsh (his private secretary) found ...
April in Paris
One April, a friend of Vernon Duke's, inspired by his famous song "April in Pari...
Robin, Leech
In May 2000, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" host Robin Leach settled severa...
Benchley in Venice
While visiting Venice for the first time, Robert Benchley sent a gag telegram to...
Fire and Ice
One wintry evening, Grant entered a hotel in Galena, Illinois. Sitting by the fi...
Grand Suggestion
While visiting America one year, Marshal Foch was escorted on a sight-seeing tou...
Customary Declaration
One day during a lecture tour in 1882, Oscar Wilde was asked by a customs office...
Michael Palin: Amazon Festival
While filming one of his travel shows, Michael Palin found himself celebrating a...
Great White Way
While visiting Manhattan one evening, G. K. Chesterton was taken to view the bri...
Hot Ticket?
One day Christopher Atkinson began a lecture by explaining that he would be exam...
Tour of Iran
During an official tour of Iran one year, French president Charles de Gaulle and...
Paul Walker: Man O' War
While celebrating his 32nd birthday in Baja California in 2005, Paul Walker was ...
Boston
Oliver Herford was no fan of Boston. "When I go abroad, I always sail from Bosto...
Existential Crisis?
When an express train to London made an unscheduled stop at Reading station, Cyr...
Golden Experience? (long)
In June 1999, a travel writing conference was held at the University of Pennsylv...
Sun Wah Tokyo!?
Following a concert tour in Japan, Ben Folds declared that the trip had been som...
Falmouth
In 1968, Robin Knox-Johnston set off from Falmouth, England in his old-fashioned...
Bobbing With Willy?
Shortly after the tragic events of September 11th, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole joi...
Greecer?
When the sportswriter Grantland Rice was invited to play golf with President War...
Florid Prose?
American social critic and writer Lewis Mumford was not enamored with rapid urba...
Barrel Organs
One summer Verdi rented a sizable cottage at a fashionable Italian resort. One d...
Cairo Bazaar
"I was walking through the bazaars of Cairo," Sir Ronald Storrs once recalled, "...
National Hooky League
In mid-Febrary 2003, Montreal Canadiens defenseman Patrice Brisebois took a week...
Boon Companion
"It had taken me days to get a visa to Baghdad," Gerald Priestland once recalled...
Overcoat
A friend accompanying Maurice Baring on a train trip through Germany one year wa...
Tibbles's Briefcase (long)
"At Palm Springs Municipal Airport, a writer named George Tibbles passed unchall...
Woogy?
During a certain month-long trip to India, P. J. O'Rourke, missing his wife and ...
Elephant?
P. T. Barnum once employed an elephant to do the plowing on his farm. A neighbor...
Jennifer Connelly: The Grea...
Early on, Jennifer Connelly - who met one boyfriend (the photographer David Duga...
EasyJet Getaway
In April 2003, Major Charles Ingram and his wife were found guilty of cheating t...
Bag Man
One day a reporter assigned to cover a New York Yankees road trip was surprised ...
Absent-Minded Traveler
In November, 1930, Albert Einstein left Berlin to visit the United States. The E...
Zanuck & the Louvre
Twentieth Century-Fox founder Darryl F. Zanuck was not noted for his sophisticat...
Bill Bryson: Stromatolites
Bill Bryson once traveled to an area near Shark Bay, "about as far from the main...
Brooke Burke: Chosen One
"We did 'Wild On Greece,'" 'Wild On' host Brooke Burke once recalled. "At one ba...
The Captain & Tennille: Whe...
Daryl Dragon (the "Captain" half of the Captain & Tennille) was rarely seen with...
Benedict Allen: Mono the Mo...
Benedict Allen once encountered a group of friendly Matses Indians while trekkin...
Christopher Hitchens: Advic...
"When I worked at the old New Statesman magazine in London," Christopher ...
Quentin Crewe: Bedouin Logic
"The remarkable journey made by Quentin Crewe in his wheelchair across the deser...
JNRA?
A gentleman once traveled from Johannesburg to Pretoria to obtain American natur...
Royal Guidance
Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, thousands of William I's s...
Lizard of Oz?
A dull country magistrate once belabored Samuel Johnson with a tedious account o...
Worldly Wisdom
In 2002 London's Paul Linch, on his way to Scotland to attempt a world-record br...
Julian Street
In 1914, the travel writer Julian Street wrote an article about Cripple Creek, C...
Sind Sie Ein Dummkopf!?
One evening while touring with Sigur Rós in Germany, Drowning Pool frontman Jons...
11th Commandment?
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Tw...
Fruit Canal?
A penchant for deflowering young girls was hardly Howard Hughes's most unusual s...
Bibliomaniac?
Among Dr. Livingstone's provisions when he started his famous trek across Africa...
Creative Accounting
"Fowler was a master of creative expense account writing. In 1921, while on Hear...
Good Zog!
After Italy's invasion of Albania in 1939, King Zog, having been exiled by Musso...
Olivier's Beef
Sir Laurence Olivier once held a press conference in London to complain about th...
Gustav Mahler: Niagara Visit
The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler once visited Niagara Falls. His verdict? ...
Bold Digger?
One day during a trip to Italy, Esther Guimond was detained at a customs house b...
Kyra Sedgwick: Look, Honey!
In 2004, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon took their children on a trip to Costa Ri...
Peter Menzel: Snack Time
Peter Menzel, while traveling the globe to research insect consumption in variou...
Byron's Venice
"In the case of Lord Byron, Venice inspired his libido so vividly that he emerge...
Tonic Water
While vacationing in the Highlands one year, Denis Healey, then vice chancellor ...
Chertkov
Among Leo Tolstoy's disciples was a certain wealthy aristocrat named Chertkov. T...
Worldly Traveler?
Henry David Thoreau was asked one day whether he had traveled much. "Yes," he re...
Taj Mahal
Noel Coward traveled abroad to meet people rather than to see the sights. He onc...
Military Intelligence
In 1943, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed a nondescript printing plant i...
Kuwaiti Ruse
The Iraqis had designs on Kuwait long before the Gulf War. "One drawback of havi...
You Say Potato?
One day after her arrival in America (from China), Bai Ling found herself on a f...
Mardi Gras Pitcher?
In 1954, when the Brooklyn Dodgers signed future pitching legend Sandy Koufax (a...
Have Gun Will Travel?
In 1884, when the British garrison at Khartoum, Egypt was under siege, a $15,000...
Countess Express
When Gary Cooper first left his native Montana for Hollywood, he was seduced by ...
Globe-Trotter
Over the course of his long career, Bob Hope traveled around the globe. "I've be...
'N Space Cadet?
In 2002, 'N Sync's Lance Bass signed an "initial deal" with the Russian Space Ag...
British Gravy
While filming one of his travel shows, Michael Palin found himself in a Chinese ...
Eighth Continent?
Soon after his seventh "Inside" book appeared, John Gunther was interviewed by C...
Knowledge Lover
According to his brother Julian, before setting out on a journey around the worl...
Hawaiian Detour
Kelly Hu was once asked whether she had ever done mean things to "stupid Hawaiia...
Cultural Ambassador
In his capacity as a semi-official "cultural ambassador" for Slovenia, the philo...
Bill Bryson: Book Tour
On his first trip to Sydney, Bill Bryson was shown around town by a kindly sales...
Bill Bryson: Drink to Frien...
Before returning to Australia one year, travel writer Bill Bryson met a friend n...
Mariah Carey: Traveling Light
After spending a week in London in 2005, Mariah Carey reportedly had to call for...
Twain Makes a Mark
In order to apply for the post of reporter-at-large with the Territorial Enterpr...
Tongue Bath
While visiting the fashionable resort of Bath during the off season, George Selw...
Leary traveler?
While traveling through southern Italy in 1847, Edward Lear was overtaken by the...
Dardanelles
"At Hurstmonceaux friends brought an American woman to lunch," Peter Coats once ...
Tahiti
David Crosby once visited Tahiti - and returned with a curious travel report: "T...
Miniature Palace
When Catherine the Great traveled from St. Petersberg to Moscow for her coronati...
Silly Sigmund
Sigmund Freud had to be accompanied by someone else on most of his trips. Why? H...
Cohn
When Harry Cohn informed his staff one day that he was leaving for New York, the...
Sigmund Fraud?
Sigmund Freud was not without his critics, among them Dr. Sophie Freud, Sigmund´...
Graham Greene: Morbid Curio...
In 1935, following the success of Stamboul Train (published in the United...
Director in Training
Legendary director John Ford was initially ambivalent about his decision to foll...
Hot Pocket
While shooting a film in South Africa in 2003, Eddie Griffin and his wife went o...
Douglas-Away
"'Peking, Alec. Peking, Peking.' Sir Alec Douglas-Home's devoted wife Elizabeth ...
Durian
"With a friend, I was on a tram from Bangkok to Penang," Victor Heiser once reca...
Nostalgia Trip
While visiting Florence in the early years of their marriage, Victoria and Alber...
Noel Coward: Swiss Junket
"The Daily Express was hounding Noel Coward," Eric Ambler once recalled. ...
Nice Story
Shortly after his arrival in Rome (on a scholarship), Hector Berlioz was dismaye...
Laurens van der Bogus
In 1977, South African author Sir Laurens van der Post wrote a book chronicling ...
John Steinbeck: When in Rom...
"Frank Glass [?] brought back a small stone - a rock - from the Forum," John Ste...
William Butler Yeats: Subje...
"Yeats looked at objects not to verify their existence but to appreciate their s...
Light Traveler
David Cassidy once returned from a trip to Europe with advice for novice travele...
Travels with Charley
While researching The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck spent two years trekking...
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