By Maryann Haggerty
Special to The Washington Post
We did laundry in Honolulu, Hong Kong and Madrid.
Oh, and in a bathtub in Bali.
This summer, my husband and I, both well past backpacker age, travelled around the world in 29 days. That’s an average of less than four days in each of the eight countries we visited. [...]

DENPASAR ~ Bali-based adventurers who like to get behind the wheel of a car and discover natural wonders and culinary pleasures have a wealth of treasures to uncover in Western Australia’s geographically spectacular southwest wine and gourmet districts.
Only three hours from Perth – around the same as a drive from south Bali to Lovina or [...]

By Susan Spano
Los Angeles Times
APT, France ~ Some people say it served Peter Mayle right when a fan tracked him down in Provence and walked into his sitting room uninvited. The English writer’s books – A Year in Provence (1991), Toujours Provence (1992), Encore Provence (2000) and Provence A-Z (2006) – turned the village of [...]

SANTIAGO ~ A protest by Easter Island locals against excessive hordes of tourists and residence-seekers eased this week when officials negotiated the reopening of the Pacific Island’s only airport after two days of disturbances.
“The airport is fully operational,” a senior interior ministry official, Patricio Rosende, told reporters in the Chilean capital Santiago on Monday.
All flights [...]

VATICAN CITY ~ The Vatican Museums, whose treasures include Michelangelo’s prized frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, will stay open late on Fridays in September and October, arts chiefs said.
The collections will be on view from 7 to 11pm by reservation only at the Vatican website, http://mv.vatican.va.
Since the circuit through the vast collections takes at least [...]