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The Birdsey Studio and Other Bermuda Artists
Bermuda is a place “to hide and hush,” wrote American painter Marsden Hartley after a 1917 visit—a sentiment that would have found favor with other art-world luminaries, including Winslow Homer,...
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The Bermuda Triangle
If there’s one thing most everyone knows about Bermuda—even if they’ve never set foot on the island—it’s that the archipelago lies in the maw of a spooky phenomenon dubbed the “Bermuda Triangle”....
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National Museum of Bermuda
Bermuda’s largest and most-visited attraction, the National Museum of Bermuda (The Keep, 15 Maritime Ln. at the northern point of the Royal Naval Dockyard, tel. 441/234-1333, fax 441/234-1735,...
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Gombey Troupes of Bermuda
Bermuda’s cultural ambassadors are the gombeys, a name meaning “drums” given to African-inspired dance troupes adorned in elaborate outfits featuring feathers, beads, and sequins. Like tribal...
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Best Extreme Sports in Bermuda
While many Bermuda residents spend weekends and downtime testing their limits against the island’s physical challenges, visitor activities were often somewhat, well, sedate. That’s all changed in the...
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Bermuda Landscapes: Geography and Geology
An archipelago arranged as a fishhook, Bermuda comprises a total of more than 100 islands encircled by a collar of coral. Wary Spanish mariners of the 16th century dubbed them Las Islas de Demonios...
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The Bermuda Cedar
The Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) is a symbol of survival for islanders, who have depended on the sturdy evergreen from the first days of human habitation on Bermuda. The endemic cedar, along...
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Planning Your Time in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda
Unless you’re staying in the Town of St. George or the West End, each with its own culinary and retail offerings, the city of Hamilton will likely be your first point of reference as you explore...
View ArticleMoon Puerto Rico
This full-color guide includes vibrant photos and easy-to-use maps to help with trip planning. Travel journalist Suzanne Van Atten covers the best of Puerto Rico—from its spectacular beaches and...
View ArticleMoon U.S. & British Virgin Islands
This full-color guidebook includes vibrant photos and easy-to-use maps to help with trip planning. Virgin Islands resident Susanna Henighan Potter offers firsthand knowledge of everything this paradise...
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Havana’s Plaza de San Francisco
Cobbled Plaza de San Francisco, two blocks south of Plaza de Armas, at Oficios and the foot of Amargura, faces onto Avenida del Puerto. During the 16th century the area was the waterfront of the early...
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Planning a Trip to Havana: Before You Go
Thanks to lightened travel restrictions, U.S. citizens are now permitted to visit Cuba as participants in “people to people” programs, and a trip to Havana is a travel opportunity not to be missed. To...
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Havana’s Habana Vieja District
Habana Vieja (4.5 square km) is defined by the limits of the early colonial settlement that lay within fortified walls. The legal boundary of Habana Vieja includes the Paseo de Martí (Prado) and...
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Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana
The pocket-size Castillo de la Real Fuerza (Royal Power Castle, O’Reilly #2, tel. 07/864-4488, Tues.-Sun. 9:30am-5pm, entrance CUC3, cameras CUC5), on the northeast corner of the plaza, was begun in...
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Sights at Havana’s Harbor Channel
Throughout most of the colonial era, sea waves washed up on a beach that lined the southern shore of the harbor channel and bordered what is today Calle Cuba and, eastward, Calle Tacón, which runs...
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A Guided Walk Along Calle Obispo in Havana
Linking Plaza de Armas with Parque Central, pedestrians-only Calle Obispo is Habana Vieja’s busiest shopping street and a fascinating walking tour steeped in history. You’ll have the opportunity to...
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Planning a Trip to the Virgin Islands
When planning a trip to the Virgin Islands, there’s a lot to take into account: your budget, when to go, how you’ll get there, and what necessities to pack. Fortunately–and unlike the question of what...
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Touring Havana’s Cigar Factories
You’ll forever remember the pungent aroma of a cigar factory, a visit to which is de rigueur when you’re in Havana. The factories, housed in colonial buildings, remain much as they were in the mid-19th...
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Sights In and Around Parque de la Fraternidad, Havana
The Parque de la Fraternidad (Friendship Park) was laid out in 1892 on an old military drill square, the Campo de Marte, to commemorate the fourth centennial of Columbus’s discovery of America (in the...
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Havana Neighborhood Highlights
Each neighborhood in Havana has its own unique flavor, especially when it comes to their sights and histories. To make your explorations easier, here’s a quick roundup of the highlights of each....
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