Next time you’re at 156th and Broadway — not that many New Yorkers or visitors to New York ever are — look west. The Audubon Terrace is a group of eight Beaux Art buildings that come as quite a shock. They’re home to a few institutions like the Hispanic Society of America, founded in 1904. It’s fun. … Continue reading
Bulgaria is one of Europe’s great roadtrip secrets. In places like Veliko Tarnovo, you can rent cars for as little as $25/day. Roads cross mountain ranges, and buffalo yogurt stands and woodcutter towns and weird monuments like the one below. Years ago I bought a great old Soviet 35mm camera for about $20 at a flea market in Sofia, Bulgaria. Sometimes I remember … Continue reading
I’m usually interested in towns big enough to have a downtown, particularly when they’re capitals. A few years ago I zipped through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (shown above; courtesy of the Library of Congress), and didn’t stop. It had a distressed, morning-after air, and in fact declared bankruptcy a couple years ago. Later, I once said anything place can be interesting — except for Harrisburg. … Continue reading
A couple months ago, I shared some travel rules (not my full list of 44) — including what to do when you’re chased by cows — at the Google HQ in New York. Then I got a free lunch in their swank cafeteria.
You know those little irritating TVs that blare in the back of New York cabs? The ones you either watch and get car sick, or turn off? Well, this week watch: I’m on one. NBC New York invited me to share ‘My New York’ in a short of video of places I like to go to. I picked the area around Times Square … Continue reading
Last Friday I spoke on FoxNewsLive.com on US travel scams. The fact that the Naked Cowboy of Times Square is not naked did make the cut. Here’s the video: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
ROBERT REID is a travel writer (Lonely Planet, New York Times), travel expert (Today Show, CNN, GoogleTalks), travel videographer (his 76-Second Travel Show) and "travel artist" (staging the Manhattan Bridge's 100th birthday, training with Mounties). Read more...
