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I can honestly say that our night in the Sahara desert and our hour and a half-long camel trek there through the salmon-colored dunes was...

If we thought that Marrakech was a rabbit warren of alleys through the souk, or market, it was nothing compared to Fez! The second large...

Our trip to Morocco was the fortunate brainstorm of two of our children who wanted to go on a family trip with us. We pondered several d...

Australia had been on our bucket list for a long time and when our nephew who lives in Sydney announced his wedding date, it was a done d...

I’m an unapologetic francophile. I knew from the moment I could choose a foreign language in school that it would be French. I majored ...

We knew we wanted to visit either Pompeii or Herculaneum while we were in Naples, but which one? In the end we chose Herculaneum (Ercola...

Naples has a small but efficient metro system consisting mainly of two lines, 1 and 6 (the yellow and light blue lines, below). In 2006 t...

Mangia! This command conjures up the image of the quintessential Italian grandmother at Sunday dinner. Italy is renowned for its food a...

Are you planning a trip to Italy? Not surprisingly, most people dream of Rome, Florence, Venice and the Tuscan hills and indeed, they're...

Naples is a great jumping-off point for a number of day trips. I wanted to go to the Amalfi Coast and Paul wanted to explore Naples a bi...

Just 25 miles north of the Sudanese border, the two temples originally built into the sandstone cliffs of Abu Simbel are not only a tribu...

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead on the west bank of the Nile where the sun "dies". Nowhere is this more evident than at the Vall...