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Parisians enjoy more than 400 parks and gardens encompassing over 7,000 acres of green space. And enjoy them they do; it's rare to walk...

This little island is 27 acres of tranquility in the middle of the Seine River. You can walk completely around it in less than 15...

When most people hear "Pantheon", they picture the beautiful ancient temple in Rome. As it turns out, the Parisian Panthéon, while not...

Perched on a hillside covering 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery takes its name from Père...

Note: this post contains photos of human skulls and bones. Stop! This is the empire of death. Paris certainly wasn't the stunning city...

Known in French as Le Jardin du Luxembourg, this stunning garden covers 57 acres in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Its construction...

This post is a deviation from our usual articles about our travels outside the US, but Denali deserves a special mention. At more than...

During our unforgettable trip to Iceland in June 2021, Paul and I opted for more time in Reykjavik, so Katie, Nan and David spent a...

When Iceland began to welcome vaccinated Americans in the late spring 2021, we quickly seized the opportunity to take our first...

We visited Iceland with our two daughters and son-in-law in June 2021 just after it began to welcome vaccinated Americans and we spent...

When Iceland announced in late spring of 2021 that it would welcome vaccinated Americans, we jumped on the opportunity. Like most...

We try to learn from the mistakes we've made during our travels. Years of traveling around the globe have taught us a lot of valuable...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is the Toledo station, my favorite. Naples has a small but efficient metro system consisting mainly of two lines, 1 and 6 (the...

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

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

The iconic view from Piazza Tasso Naples is a great jumping-off point for a number of day trips. I wanted to go to the Amalfi Coast and...

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

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...