We rented a villa with nine bedrooms and five bathrooms…

I stumble out of the wine bar in the middle of the afternoon, and I think to myself I’ll just go to the park for a nap in the sun.

When you’re a CS member and the new experiences never end, there’s always more to say.

I would leave the country…once every year for the next four years. I figured everyone won: I got to see new and adventurous places. And no one else really mattered.

by Emily Epstein

The drunkards of the Web are toasting the Thirsty Traveler. Recently, his alcoholic adventures have gotten attention from a bunch of sites and blogs.

The French Government takes their country’s gourmet reputation seriously: by law, the first bottle out of France ’s vineyards each year, le Beaujolais Nouveau, can’t be uncorked until the third Thursday of November.

It must be the unseasonably early cold-snap – this weekend’s travel features skipped over the exotic destinations and adventures, in favor of hibernation-season comforts like food, wine, socializing, and luxe lodgings.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 10/8/06.

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.