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Travel: Cooking in the Berkshires

It started out as a weekend of heirloom beet salads and ended up, as usual, with burgers. Our trip to a country hotel in the […]

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Travel: Salem by Moonlight

At some point, “family vacation” becomes an oxymoron: Where do you go with teenagers? Ours acquiesced to Salem, Massachusetts, a town once gripped by hysterical […]

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Travel: Insiders’ Island

I boarded the jet for Nantucket stuffed up from cold symptoms and allergies, but I felt better as soon as I stepped onto the tarmac […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Chester County

From 14-year-old French Creek Ridge Vineyards in Elverson, an hour west of Philadelphia, through the winding back roads of Chester County to Chester Springs and […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Bucks County

Joseph Maxian, dressed in a grape-patterned tie and a vest embroidered with wine labels, is lecturing about the sediment that settles at the bottom of […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Atlantic County

You can make a weekend of touring the wineries of southern New Jersey, which, legend holds, has been a grape-growing region since the time of […]

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Travel: Wake of the Storm

The only thing you need to know for a perfect Bermuda vacation is this: You should always be close enough to the ocean to see […]

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Travel: Go With The Gang: Mountain Lodge in West Virginia

The pick: The BrazenHead Inn in Mingo Village, in the Potomac Highlands. The area features skiing at Snowshoe, trout fishing, endless hiking and mountain biking. […]

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Travel: A Tuscan Villa

The pick: Villa Salicotta, on the Umbrian border of Tuscany. Feast on golden countryside vistas from this peaceful hilltop perch. Stone walls and antique furniture […]

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Travel: Go With The Gang: A Southwest Houseboat

Whether tooling past Arizona’s colorful cliffs on Lake Mohave, or charting a course through 110-mile Lake Mead, this slow cruiser offers a novel way to […]

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Travel: Warning: Kid Zone

We arrived later than we’d expected—seven-ish on Saturday evening, having spent what seemed like six days caught in a Poconos traffic jam—and so we immediately […]

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Travel: Fun and sun even a teen could love: Club Med, Punta Cana

ADULT APPEAL: Yes, it’s mega-resorty and family-friendly, but Club Med’s Dominican Republic property—a four-hour direct flight from Philadelphia—features a truly inviting tropical setting (thatched-roof bars, […]

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Travel: Go With The Gang: Beach Manse in The Outer Banks

The pick: The Renaissance, in Nags Head. This majestic 6,300-square-foot beach house has a two-story rear deck facing the ocean dunes, with primo sunrise seats, […]

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Travel: Sporty Country Retreat: Cliff Park Inn, Milford, PA

Just a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Philly, in the Poconos, Cliff Park Inn offers a romantic escape at an 1820s estate, with 14 tasteful, well-appointed rooms […]

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Travel: Two vacations in one: Beaches Family Resort, Negril, Jamaica

THE VIBE: You do your thing. The baby does her thing. You meet for a dip in the ocean, then dinner at the Teppanyake restaurant […]