Destinations | A Traveler's Glimpse: Kristin Jackson
Kristin Jackson writes about worldwide travel in Destinations. The column runs in Pacific Northwest Magazine on Sundays.
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Friday, August 22
Although Spain has been in economic crisis over the past few years with an unemployment rate of more than 25 percent, the beaches of Barcelona and beyond keep luring locals and tourists.
Friday, August 15
Lewiston is far from the Pacific Ocean and the big ports of the West Coast — about 465 miles up the Columbia and Snake rivers — but grains and goods flow from and to the Idaho city by big cargo ships.
Friday, July 18
From dawn to dusk during each year’s monthlong Ramadan period, devout Muslims abstain from eating, drinking or smoking. It’s one of the holiest times in the Islamic calendar, commemorating the revelation of the Quran, Islam’s sacred text.
Friday, July 11
Yathae Pyan cave has been turned into a Buddhist place of worship.
Friday, July 4
The highly stylized Kabuki dance-drama, often focused on tragic love, is more than 400 years old. Men and boys, in ornate costumes and makeup, usually play both the female and male characters.
Friday, June 27
Properly called “The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,” the copper figure was a gift from France in 1886.
Friday, June 20
This entertaining window washer is dangling outside a hotel in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-biggest city with more than 3 million people.
Friday, June 13
The Tour de France is both epic and inspirational for cyclists of all sorts.
Friday, June 6
But artificial waves sweep across the pool, causing the thousands of people to bob and shriek with glee in their brightly colored inner tubes.
Friday, May 30
Mouraria, whose tangled web of narrow streets dates to medieval times, was a cradle of Fado, the traditional melancholy Portuguese singing. Maria Severa was one of the first famous Fado singers.
Friday, May 23
Nature’s light show trumps the work of mere men high above the Italian city of Catania.
