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NYJW Travel

August is the weirdest month for travel. It’s traditionally the vacation period, particularly in Europe; entire cities appear to be evacuated between July and September. August commands the highest prices for East Coast beach rentals, and as every New Yorker knows, it’s the month when your therapist abandons you for the Hamptons. But for those […]

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Lately, after many sojourns along the New England coast, Oggi and I decided to rectify a glaring gap in our U.S. beachgoing résumé: the Mid-Atlantic. Having recently explored the Jersey Shore, we headed south to Delaware, a state famous for DuPont, Joe Biden, laissez faire corporate taxes and not much else. We knew there had […]

When I first visited the island of Buyukada, about an hour from Istanbul, it was on a ferry chartered by the Jewish community.  That was about 25 years ago. It was a summer weekend, when it seemed the entire community of Istanbul would decamp  to this island retreat to get away from the sweltering summers […]

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