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The author discusses his short relationship with Anthony Burgess when they were both in Italy. Burgess's high-energy working habits, defense of his novel 'A Clockwork Orange,' and personality are described.

A wealthy American of Italian heritage has returned to the small town of Borlasca, Italy, where his parents lived, and has been restoring the town over a period of several years. Architect Robert V. Arrigoni has been commissioned to help with the restoration.

The north African nation of Tunisia is seldom traveled to but a delightful destination that mixes a variety of Mediterranean cultures. Right across the sea from Italy, its 8.7 million people are mostly Islamic but very pro-Western and friendly to Americans.

Among the best places in Europe to hang out and watch people on the streets is Camden Lock in London, England, the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland, the Beaubourg and Boulevard de la Croisette in France, the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, and the Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany.

Seville is known as one of Spain's most traditional cities, yet beneath its traditions it has a strong spirit of youth and individuality. A series of photographs captures the essence of life in this quintessentially Spanish city.

Lisbon, Portugal, has a beautiful setting, a long history, warmth and hospitality, yet the city is not boastful of its attractions. Its people are somewhat fatalistic. Lisbon was designated the European Capital of Culture in 1994.

Fashion drawings have become popular among collectors. Joelle Chariau, the most prominent dealer in fashion illustrations, says that the drawings have been popular in France for some time. Fashion illustrators include Georges Lepape, Rene Bouche, Antonio Lopez and Rene Bouet-Willaumez.

An author describes living with his family in a hilltop villa in Grenada, Spain while working on a novel. The family loved it so much they considered moving back after the book came out, but they never did. He was relieved to discover a decade later on a trip back that little had changed.

Rome is best experienced by those willing to let go of themselves and not be concerned with security, convenience or order. Its legendary antiquities alone make it a must to see, but experiencing how they blend into contemporary life is even more compelling.

Gore Vidal now considers his Ravello home his permanent residence. It is built into a cliff overlooking the Amalfi coast overlooking the Gulf of Salerno. It has a Roman floor plan and barrel-vaulted ceilings that keep rooms cool in summer.

The father of Venus Williams says his daughter has turned down offers for millions of dollars in contracts. Mr Williams says he wants his daughter to get a good education, but people suspect he is pressuring her on the tennis circuit since the family is moving across country to a tennis academy.

The article focuses on Rafael Nadal, a Spanish professional tennis player. Topics include brief information about his career, his feelings about the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, and a list of his sports victories in the late 2000s. Discussion of media coverage of Nadal and a comparison with fellow tennis player Roger Federer are also included.

Sites along Italy's historic Appian Way are described. The route follows a 360-mile road built by the Romans from Rome southeast to Brindisi. The Appian Way goes through Sessa Aurunca, Capua, Benevento, Potenza, and Matera. The historic significances of these places are described.

Charles Baudelaire wrote that ''No human heart/changes half so fast as the face of a city.'' Although the line refers to 19th-century Paris, it certainly applies to 21st-century Athens as [...]

Focuses on the retrospect of the author regarding his meeting with the author Graham Greene in Antibes, France. Highlights of Greene's life as a novelist; Features of Greene's writing style; Information about Greene's visit to Cuba.

To listen to some londoners talk, hampstead, in the northwest corner of the city, deserves to be described entirely in italicized adjectives, each as double-edged and cutting as a dagger. [...]

DOUBLE FAULT By Lionel Shriver. 317 pp. New York: Doubleday. $22.95. Unlike America's lively tradition of sports reporting, sports fiction remains a somnolent subgenre. Much of it, as Nabokov observed [...]

You can't really call me Ishmael. Unlike the narrator of ''Moby-Dick,'' when it's a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I don't usually climb aboard a boat and explore the [...]

THE SPARKLING CENTERPIECE of those jeweled cities strung on the swagged necklace of the ancient Silk Road, a remote oasis in the immensity of Central Asia, Samarkand has excited the [...]

I love winter resorts. Or, to be precise, I love the Platonic conception of such places. The reality usually leaves me not just cold but let down and irascible. Much [...]

Having lived in Rome for a dozen years, I fly back once or twice annually and always go through the same rituals of readjustment. I slug down a cappuccino, I [...]

In Paris, a city where food preparation is viewed as an art form and where the Michelin guide is as ubiquitous as the Gideon Bible in American hotel rooms, it [...]