When sightseeing my way through Stockholm, I take full advantage of the local tradition of the fika: Sweden’s ritual coffee break.
They say you should set your watch back 10 years when in Appenzell, Switzerland’s most traditional region.
It’s just the place to mix with the locals, work on tans and enjoy some very fresh octopus.
Baden-Baden offers the ultimate spa experience. There’s one catch for body-conscious Americans — you have to disrobe.
The hilltop cemetery in the Italian Cinque Terre village offers and unbeatable vista of a timeless setting.
The Swiss have great respect for Alpine traditions and culture — and contempt for tourists who disrespect both.
The walls of antiquity — and of the Cold War — were symbols not of strength, but of mistrust and insecurity.
For tourists unaware of history, the restored Reichstag building in Berlin, which reopened to the public in 1999, was just a new dome to climb.
Of the great cities of Europe – London, Paris, Rome and Istanbul – Istanbul offers the most thrills for the best price.
With kitsch and greasy spoons galore, it’s been a (guilty) pleasure for Brits for 150 years.
The Palio di Siena horse race through the streets of Siena is a cherished summer tradition that goes back 500 years.
It’s proof that traditional cultures are things to value and preserve, not stifle with modernity.
They like our breakfasts, but they’re not fans of our mozzarella-filled lasagne and our overly complicated salads.
A boisterous, belching Bavarian beer hall is possibly the most convivial place on Earth.
Once an oppressed backwater of the Soviet Union, the small Baltic nation is now prosperous and proud.
The 500-foot-tall hill supposedly was visited by Jesus’ uncle, and is a source of the Holy Grail myths.
It’s a great place to experience Italy, both the winds of its past and the (sometimes raunchy) delights of its now.
The chaotic, violent and very brief running of the bulls endures in this corner of Spain.
A dinghy trip to an island reveals the kind of discovery that makes traveling magical.
But to experience Tuscan life at its finest and most authentic, you must venture off the tourism track.
