Europe

The Shortest Hour of My Life: Positano, Italy

May 8, 2013
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It was May of last year that I visited Positano, Italy for the first time and experienced the second major travel regret of my life. (My first, if you’ll recall, is that I didn’t visit Egypt before the political situation there became unstable.) My second travel regret isn’t that I visited Positano, of course. Far [...]

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Getting Lost

April 3, 2013
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When I travel, it’s usually for a week or less at a time, because that’s all the time I can get off from my day job. So I try to be efficient and maximize my time. I create an itinerary for each day of my trip—where I’ll go, what I’ll do, and when. I usually [...]

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Rick Steves Talks Europe…in Vermont

March 27, 2013
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If you have ever traveled to Europe and gone searching for a good guidebook, chances are, you know who Rick Steves is. The author of Europe Through the Back Door, Best of Europe and individual country guides, Rick also hosts a travel show on PBS and offers tours, audio guides, apps, you name it. The [...]

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5 Favorite River Walks in 5 Fabulous Cities

February 6, 2013
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Humankind has been drawn to rivers for as long as we’ve drawn breath. Songs and poems have been written about rivers, and many world mythologies have at least one important story about a river. In mythology, crossing a river marks an important part of a journey. The River Styx in Greek mythology was the border [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Seeing Europe By Cruise Ship

January 16, 2013
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Is Europe on your travel bucket list? How many cities in Europe? Five? Ten? Thirty? If you’ve got a travel bucket list a mile long that includes numerous cities in Europe, you may find yourself wondering how on Earth you can visit that many places with the week or two of vacation time you get [...]

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Marseilles: Europe’s Capital of Culture 2013

January 9, 2013
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Those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile know that I visited several cities in the Mediterranean last year. If you were to ask me which one was the biggest surprise to me, I would say Marseilles, France. It was the sleeper hit of the trip for me. Why? Because I had [...]

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2013 Travel Sneak Peek

January 2, 2013
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2012 set the bar pretty high when it came to travel. I mean, how can I possibly top a year during which I traveled 28,000 miles and visited 12 destinations, including Hawaii and Pompeii–all while holding down a full-time job? Well, the simple truth is, I can’t. So I’m not even going to try. But [...]

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Looking Back on a Year of Adventures

December 19, 2012
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I love this time of year. In addition to looking ahead to the new year, making plans and setting goals, I’ve also been reflecting on the year that has passed. Here’s what 2012 looked like, from a travel perspective, for me: By the Numbers Number of Trips: 4 (keep in mind I have a full-time [...]

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Five Things That Surprised Me About Pompeii

November 14, 2012
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Because of its tragic history, I have had a lifelong fascination with Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD. The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which is about five miles away from Pompeii, buried the entire city under 13 to 20 feet of ash. Everyone who was still [...]

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