Fighting words abroad.

In this weekend’s travel pages: traveling in Japan, last-chance winter fun, and urban travel in a new crop of destinations.

The slide in this picture isn’t in a theme park (unless your idea of a thrill ride is watching Un Chien Andalou), it’s in the massive entry hall of the Tate Modern in London.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

A piece from today’s NYT Travel Section on Madrid has vaulted into the ranks of the paper’s most-emailed. It seems, now that Barcelona has slumped into a deep post-party hangover, that stuffier, but more tasteful Madrid is getting it’s due

The first new art museum in Boston in nearly one hundred years debuted last weekend. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) its opened its very shiny and futuristic doors on December 10th in a formerly derelict harbor-front area of South Boston.

he NY Times catches on to the art scene, cafés, clubs and neo-Weimar energy of Berlin’s former East: Kreuzberg, Mitte and Friedrichshain.

Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim museum jump-started the trend of small cities paying big-bucks for architecture to draw tourist pesos (aka the Bilbao Effect) back in 1997. Now, architourists have new cause to make the pilgrimage to northwestern Spain.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 5/6/06