On the coast of Cyprus, the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, is said to have arisen from the ...

The charm of Bern, the capital of Switzerland, hits you almost immediately upon arrival.

It’s 6:45 a.m., pitch dark, eerily quiet, and I’m still half-asleep as I carefully follow my guide on ...

Does it make sense to feel sorry for a woman who dumped her lover many centuries ago when ...

WINCHESTER, England—When Jane Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 in Hampshire, England, the inscription on her ...

“Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like ...

The students of Tübingen are a special breed. They organize themselves in fraternities, are highly competitive, and have ...

Some like it hot, especially after a long, cold North American winter, and so the idea of spending ...

“One has to be dead, if one doesn’t get revived in Heidelberg,” wrote German journalist and poet Christian ...

To visit the Alentejo, Portugal’s largest but least developed region, is to travel back in time.

With an entire empire at her feet, Queen Victoria's favorite place to relax was the Isle of Wight, ...

Nicknamed Gateway to the World (Tor zur Welt), Hamburg is a cosmopolitan city with people from all over ...

For centuries, the Harz has been a mythical and much-feared mountain range in central Germany. Residents in the ...

When the speedboat reached the port of Isabela Island, the largest of the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador, an ...

Lindau Lindau might not be well known to people living outside of Europe, but in Germany it is ...

What struck me first about The Bahamas was the friendliness of its people. Arriving in Nassau on New ...

The creature on the side of the road looked like a mixture between a monkey, an anteater, and ...

The Algarve's natural and cultural diversity is undoubtedly one of its greatest riches. Visitors to this southern region ...

Despite the lure of the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, and the ...

Rhodes is probably best known as the island that was once home to the Colossus of Rhodes, a ...

The island of Lanzarote, part of Spain’s Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, is for many ...

After only a few minutes, the boat stopped, and so did my breath—a medium-sized alligator was basking in ...

When it comes to choosing a vacation destination, I am inevitably drawn to places filled with history, culture, ...

When my husband and I visited New Zealand, our friends strongly recommended trekking amongst the volcanoes on the ...