John Oseid

As international health recommendations vary and change rapidly, as with the C.D.C.’s issuing of a cruise caution yesterday, Silversea Cruises updates its strict sailing guidelines and protocols on its health and safety page. Let the following preview on the S.A.L.T. culinary program whet your appetite for things to come in the new year.
Salt. Word now has it that, in fact, you can’t get enough of it. Okay, not that wonderful and essential sodium compound. When you hear the word on your Silve...

As international health recommendations often change, strict sailing guidelines and protocols get updated on the Silversea Cruises health and safety page.
For most of us, it’s likely been awhile since we were truly over the moon about a new travel experience. Now, the new 596-passenger Silver Moon promises to get you there, with this latest entry from Silversea Cruises having set sail earlier this year.
Also, this past mid-November, Silversea took delivery of the Silver Dawn, its tenth luxury...

Just southeast of the Asturian capital city of Oviedo, adventurous visitors can do a deep dive into that Spanish region’s industrial past, literally so by donning overalls, boots and gloves and grabbing a hard hat and lamp to descend into the old coal mine at Pozo Sotón.
Pozo Sotón is one of several such former operations in which today erstwhile miners serve as your (literally so sometimes) hands on guides. For them, it’s a far cry experience from that of their forebearers who in the 1930s w...

Hardly more than a hundred souls make their home in Sotres. If you follow a dirt road from this mountain village up a glacial valley, you’ll think you’re headed to what seems the end of the world. Yet, in a matter of minutes you’ll come upon a cluster of old stone huts tucked at the base of jagged peaks. Not a gambling den, nor a “bull meadow” as its name suggests, this spot called Vegas del Toro in the Picos de Europa massif is devoted to sheep grazing.
Here in Spain’s northern Asturias regi...

It’s like two cities for the price of one. In northern Spain, Gijón both occupies and straddles a small peninsula that juts into the Cantabrian Sea. On either side of the headland you’ll find separate waterfront and beach scenes, and thus distinct vibes.
The peninsula itself was home to a Roman settlement called Cimavilla and culminates at a hilltop parkland where today families and dog walkers stroll past a huge concrete structure with a space-agey edge to it. The renowned Basque sculptor Ed...

Don’t be surprised to spot a few backpackers nursing their blisters in Oviedo’s vast Plaza de la Catedral, the Cathedral Plaza. For centuries, pilgrims have been trekking through this Spanish city on one of the many trails that make up Northern Spain’s famed Camino de Santiago route, also known as the Way of St. James.
Your trek through the Asturias region may be considerably shorter and less strenuous, but thanks to yet another of Spain’s historic centers having been made vehicle-free you to...

As your driver heads toward the august NH Collection Palacio de Avilés hotel on the main square of Avilés, you realize that you’ve been granted the brief privilege of motoring into a car-free historic city center. After you’ve checked in and started exploring the northern Spanish city’s windy stone streets on foot, you’ll quickly cherish that liberation from noise and exhaust, and find it hard to imagine that not too many decades ago cars would have been zooming all around you.
Not getting ru...

So far over this early summer, the intense heat scorching the Far West has been the major news topic that you’d expect. Pandemic dogs maybe less so. But in these crazy times both subjects have earned a lot of ink of late.

Thankfully, La Quinta Resort & Club, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, has you covered on both fronts. While you might think of the legendary property in the dry Coachella Valley of Southern California as a winter retreat, you’ll delight in plunging into any number of its forty-one ...

Everyone in the world knows the great Edvard Munch. So celebrated is the painter today that a towering new waterfront museum named for and dedicated to him will open this fall in Oslo. But, surprise, Norwegians revere plenty of other fine native artists who are coming out from under the Munchian shadow as the world finally catches up to them. Nearly a century after his premature death, painter and horticulturalist Nikolai Astrup is now getting his due at The Clark Art Institute.

One of Americ...

Inch per inch, Vienna possesses arguably the world’s densest collection of landmarks, so culturally and aesthetically rich is the city core that you could hardly toss a pebble without it bouncing off of a major institution of some sort.

To wit, the opening last spring of the rich new Albertina Modern–executed in an understated manner given our past year—would in many another land have scored it as the highlight of national museums. But in Vienna, no fuss; why not just swell the city ranks wit...