Northern France is a charming place, full of good food, good wine, and good fun (and great people!). While there may be more dramatic...

Growing up at the Jersey Shore, New York City meant one thing and one thing only: the mean streets of Manhattan. Even when I lived in New...

One of my favorite methods of traveling is seeing a place as independently as possible, to chart my own way and get slightly off the...

Some cities are not meant to be seen by cruise ship. Sure, some could argue that Helsinki has just enough to do that a cruise ship visit...

There are certain places on earth where the art of the stroll is not only celebrated, but a quintessential facet of life. And in Paris,...

Tokyo is a city known for many things, but high up on the list is their food. If you follow along my adventures, you know that getting to...

One of my goals when visiting Belgium in 2014 was to see some of the quaint little villages that speckled the countryside. Namur, located...

Ahh, Sintra, we hardly knew ye. And what a shame, too, for what we saw convinced me that we will, at some point in the future, be back....

Readers, when I first found out that I could no longer eat gluten, my thoughts ran towards my upcoming trip to Tokyo and all the amazing...

Let me start off by saying that I am not a cruiser. Some people absolutely love cruising - in fact, most people on this Baltic cruise...