The first time I went to Venice, Italy, I didn’t take a gondola ride. It seemed like a rip-off, and we took a private water taxi on the...

Sometimes, we see things so often in our everyday lives that we don’t even stop to think about them. Take a traffic light. It’s something...

It’s quite possibly one of the most famous “things” in all of the world. It’s not just definitively THE most famous painting in the...

I must admit, the one day I visited Lake Como was the only day it rained during a three-week vacation in Italy. It only rained in the...

In the movies, scenes set in Paris often show a character opening the windows and revealing a sight of the Eiffel Tower looming over the...

I'm mesmerized by travel. My motto is to do as much as you can, whenever and wherever you have the opportunity to do it. And I don't mean...

Did you ever wonder what the OUTSIDE of famous places look like? Sure, we all know what the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican...

There are some places in the world that don’t seem real. Most people visit three cities in Italy…Rome, Florence, and Venice. But those...

I’ve played the piano since I was five, and the violin since I was eight. So visiting Vienna during a trip to Central and Eastern Europe...

There are some places in the world that can make a person seem uneducated, or naive, or just plain unknowledgeable. One example is seeing...

Have you ever traveled to a place that looked more like a fantasyland out of a theme park? That's how I felt in Prague in the Czech...

I knew very little about Krakow, Poland, before I went there. While planning my trip, I learned that it was where Oskar Schindler's...

A tour of the Vatican can take most of the day, and it is absolutely worth it. When there, the grottos underneath the main floor of St....

Madrid's main square of Plaza Mayor, much like Times Square in New York City, has its share of interesting characters. And I mean literal...

I spent hours at the Brandenburg Gate. It was my first stop in Berlin (after the TV Tower for a bird's eye view of the city I had wanted...

The best fireworks display I've ever experienced was in Paris on Bastille Day. But it was more than the fireworks themselves that left...

On the Rhine River, staying in an old castle is a must. Not an old castle with a new hotel stuck onto the side of it, but staying in the...

My friends and I had just hiked the ruins of a German castle on the Rhine River, and we couldn't wait to grab a nice beer. Settling in to...

On the last day of a week-long trip to Madrid, Spain, we were just ending a day trip to Segovia. During the drive back to Madrid, we...