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

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

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 $455. That price is so ...

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

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

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

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 and mythology. Visitor...

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

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 invaders and inhabita...

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

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

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 11th Arrondissement. Im...

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 second trip with Drea...

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 name and origin were...

The Citadel overlooks the blue-green Mediterranean of Corsica. Napoleon was born in the town of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica and the townspeople have not...

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 Provence and before boa...

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

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 Avignon." The song i...

We had a few reservations about diving with the "gentle giants" at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Their four whale sharks are between 20 and 26 feet long -...

Once you’ve completed the PADI Open Water Diver certification course, you are eligible to take the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. Even though you te...