More on Europe
By Susan James
On a recent trip to the Alsace-Lorraine area in northeast France, I was hoping to stop at the new Musée Lalique in Wingen-sur-Moder,...
By Susan Spano
In a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's...
By April Orcutt
You may have heard of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, or the gathering of sun worshipers to celebrate the summer solstice at...
By Susan Spano
A suite atop the new Shangri-La Hotel in Paris boasts a 1,000-square-foot terrace overlooking a slice of heaven: the City of Light, from...
By Mary Forgione
By Susan James
By Mary Forgione
By Janis Cooke Newman
I am sitting on the balcony of the Grand Hotel Timeo eating almond-flavored granita (a kind of Italian sherbet) for breakfast and thinking...
By Mary Forgione
How many hotels can claim "excellence since 1228"? Ashford Castle can -- though I'm not sure what passed for luxury in the 13th century....
By Susan James
As part of the pageant of events planned to celebrate the 1100th
By Mary Forgione
By Terry Gardner
By James Bartlett
Her one and only voyage ended in tragedy, yet the Titanic has been famous ever since. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the fatal...
By Jane Engle
Janis Cooke Newman
The best way to get to know the culture of any place is to eat your way through it. This is especially true in Barcelona, the epicenter of...
By Christopher Reynolds
So you hate royal weddings. Or you love them. Or maybe you've caught yourself attending to arcane details of Prince William and Kate...
The lights are still on at the Eiffel Tower. They keep ringing up sales at Prada in Rome, and London is getting ready to start partying...
By Susan Carpenter
I had two goals before I booked my flight to Europe: Get the lowest price, and travel with the fewest stops possible. Air Berlin offered the...
By Don Shirley
Travel due east across the Atlantic from New York, and the first country you'll encounter is Portugal. But it's often an afterthought for...
By Karen Leland
We were on our way to see the Brandenburg Gate when they came unexpectedly into view across the street — rows of muted gray concrete...