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Travel was not without complications: getting a train ticket from Barcelona to Italy proved much harder than we had anticipated. We forgot that Europeans go on vacation too, and that they tend to go at the end of July, just when we were trying to leave.
Anyway, who needs treaties these days in China? The oddity of my white-skinned, wide-eyed appearance alone elevates me to stop-and-stare status. In the ever-mopped, ever-muddied hallways of the private English schools where I work, a foreign teacher enters and the mass of students and...
The calendar changes will also mean that this year’s winter vacation will be five days longer than under the typical calendar.
Men grow whiskers on vacation because they want a break not only from the face but also from the routine of shaving. Shaving belongs to the world of What You Normally Have to Do, like putting on a tie, and being on time for stupefying meetings, and keeping up with...
The only way for a Moscow-based journalist to get a guaranteed summer break, in the early '90s, was to go on vacation when Mikhail Gorbachev did. Leave him alone for 24 hours, someone joked, and he would dissolve another part of the Evil Empire. This theory blew up in...