Author: Jacqueline Harmon Butler

Jacqueline Harmon Butler, recipient of many press awards for her writing, including Italy’s prestigious "Golden Linchetto Prize” for best foreign journalist and the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for internet publications. In a variety of international publications and anthologies, her travel writing has tempted readers’ palates with mouth-watering meals. Her books include The 7th Edition of the Travel Writer’s Handbook. Her published memoir, Taking a Chance on Love, chronicles her 20-year romance with a much younger Italian man. Her book, "One Last Trip to Paris" is about a 50-year-old woman who moves to Paris, France, to begin living the life she never had.

Riding the Rails in Europe

On my first trip to Europe many years ago, my sister Patty and I traveled around Ireland, England, Scotland, France and Switzerland via our Eurail Passes. I found standing in front of the big departure boards in the train stations thrilling.

Midnight Visitor at Yellowstone National Park

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] loud thumping on my porch woke me up. My heart was racing as I crept from my bed to the nearby window. Slowly I peeked out and discovered a huge buffalo staring right at me. Only a thin sheet of glass separated us. She huffed and stamped her hoofs and shook her massive head. […]

Up a Lazy Canal: Cruising the Canal du Midi in France

After a madcap adventure involving getting off the TGV from Paris at the wrong station, my friend Constance and I were horrified to find that we were in Agde instead of Beziers.