By now, we've all heard that Shakespeare wrote King Lear sequestered during the plague in London and that countless artists were inspired...

The Devil's Bridge is on the road from Lucca to Bagni di Lucca. A few years ago we fell in love with Italy, and as in most new love affai...

Bonhomme, the friendly snowman mascot of Quebec City’s Winter Carnival is everywhere this week. He's in the lobby of the Chateau Frontena...

Quebec City in winter feels like a quaint old French City crossed with Siberia. But rather than stay indoors and complain, the hardy Québ...

I was shocked (pleasantly) to be alerted on my "Hopper" phone app today that flights to Venice can still be bought right now for only $45...

Many people are surprised to discover that they can take in an authentic medieval monastery, castle, nunnery, chapel and abbey all in one...

We admit that we had reservations the first time we came to Palermo. Everyone seems to have heard about the Mafia connections and its som...

Cefalu, once a fishing village and now a vacation paradise, has a historical past dating to the 1100s which makes it an ideal stopping po...

As our tour guide acknowledged, much of what is taken for fact in the remote mountaintop village of Erice is actually a mix of history an...

Legend says that the ancient city of Segesta was settled on Mount Barbaro in Western Sicily by the Elimi people, the survivors who fled T...

The Temple of Concordia is one of the best-preserved Greek buildings in the world. Like most of Sicily, Agrigento has seen its share of i...

The sleepy nature of Castellamare del Golfo belies its Mafia past. Fishing boats line the harbor. Some offer excursions to learn about th...

Sant' Apollinare in Classe is the largest early Christian basilica in Ravenna. Ravenna, just a 2-hour train ride from Venice is where chi...

On this last short visit to Paris we decided to skip the Louvre and try an immersive Van Gogh show at the Atelier des Lumieres in the 11t...

If yachting in the Mediterranean is one of your pipe dreams, we're here to say that it is a dream you can make happen. We just took our s...

Our food tour in Paris with Eating Europe was full of surprises from the moment we met our Las Vegas-born guide, Dakota. Even though her ...

The Citadel overlooks the blue-green Mediterranean of Corsica. Napoleon was born in the town of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica and the ...

We hadn’t expected to fall in love with Marseille, but we did. Marseille was supposed to have been a two-night stopover after touring Pro...

Carcassonne, France is the medieval city that Hollywood would have invented if it didn't already exist. The iconic fortress and palace th...

Number 1 - Pont d'Avignon Most people who have been to nursery school associate Avignon with the famous children's song, "Sur le Pont de ...