Regardless of your faith, detouring to Jerusalem makes for a religious experience, then chill out with some Red Sea snorkelling.

BBC: Epic traveller��s routes

Without standing, he lifts his left foot and drags a brittle friction match across the sole of his boot, then watches the red tip flare and expire in the chill wind before he can transfer the flame.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

The Red Sox were leading and the Yankees looked old and anemic, and a late afternoon chill had brusquely turned to rain.

WSJ: Jason Gay | Requiem for the Joba Mustache