I’m in the U.S. this month for my annual visit, and everyone here is apprehensive. There’s a lot to worry about.

At the beginning of October, the Christmas decorations began appearing in the shops and stores of Merida.

This month's Travel Press Talks with Anna Skellern

Italian vacationers adore traditional beach holidays. During July and August, families often rent a seaside property for the whole month. Although amenities are fairly low key, Metaponto Lido is eastern Basilicata’s main resort—and its golden sands stretch for miles.

When markets plummeted and Congress rushed to hand over your money to Wall Street...International Living editors kept their cool.

When my husband and I announced that we were going to live our dream and move to La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur in Mexico, our friends were aghast. No one believed that I could pull the plug and disappear to a hammock on the beach.

When my wife Merri and I first arrived in Ecuador in 1997, one U.S. dollar bought about 3,000 Ecuadorian sucres. Then Ecuador’s currency took a disastrous nosedive. Within a year, 7,000 sucres equaled one greenback.