An Escape in the Country? Maybe Not
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Robert De Niro rises to a formidable challenge in this sufficiently unsettling thriller: he holds his own against the scene-swiping 10-year-old actress Dakota Fanning.
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The middle of winter generally finds me wondering more than wandering. Oh, I still get out, if only for a Sunday afternoon drive just to make sure it's all still there. If you haven't tried it, take a drive past some of the haunts where you hunkered down in last fall.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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Officials in a rural valley in British Columbia hope that keeping out cellphones will help attract residents and tourists who want to escape to the quiet of nature.
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It's an interesting read, but not a revelatory one.
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It used to be that a trip to Africa or Antarctica qualified as an exotic tourist destination. But cash-rich tourists seeking adventure are now rejecting earthly adventures for destinations that are more out of this world.
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The odds aren't as long as you might think.
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HERE was a time, not so long ago in my more carefree youth, when I was a dedicated backpacker.   It went beyond the standard gapyear routine, and most summers I could be found in some distant corner of the globe, living the life of an adrenaline junkie.
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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It's barely a town &#151; a country crossing is more like it. Not much to it, really, except for a Thursday-night auction hall, a spring-fed swimming pool and a few homes framed by cornfields.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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Despite occasional detours into sentimentality, this Irish film is better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption.
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Travelling to a foreign country can be intimidating. There is often a language barrier, different rules and regulations to follow and sometimes a fear of the unknown.
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People don't run away to find themselves. They take off to lose the things that distract them from being who they really are.
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AMONG the stories of separation and heartbreak, narrow escapes and emotional reunions recounted by Australians at the popular Thai holiday destination of Phuket was also the bizarre.