Bern

Bern Travel Guide

Humble and down-to-earth, Bern is a city of broad medieval streets, farmers’ markets, and friendly people. It is also a World Cultural Heritage city known for its sandstone arcades, fountains, and thick, sturdy towers. Though Bern is the Swiss capital, you won’t find much cosmopolitan affectation here: The cuisine du marché, based on the freshest ingredients available…

Bogota

Bogotá Travel Guide

Bogotá offers abundant contrasts: modern shopping malls and open-air markets, high-rise apartments and makeshift shanties, futuristic glass towers and colonial churches. Simultaneous displays of ostentatious wealth and shocking poverty have been a feature of life here for centuries. In the neighborhood of La Candelaria a rich assemblage of colonial mansions grandly conceived by the Spanish were built…

New Jersey Shore with Atlantic City

New Jersey Shore with Atlantic City Travel Guide

The Jersey Shore is 127 miles of public beachfront stretching like a pointing finger along the Atlantic Ocean from the Sandy Hook Peninsula in the north to Cape May at the southern tip. There is no one description of what it’s like “down the shore.” Things change town by town and…

Tucson

Tucson Travel Guide

The Old Pueblo, as Tucson is affectionately known, is built upon a deep Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Old West foundation. Arizona’s second-largest city is both a bustling center of business and a relaxed university and resort town. Metropolitan Tucson has more than 850,000 residents, including thousands of snowbirds who flee colder climes to enjoy the sun…

Lima

Lima Travel Guide

When people discuss great cities in South America, one that is often overlooked is Lima. But Peru’s capital can hold its own against its neighbors. It has an oceanfront setting, colonial-era splendor, sophisticated dining, and nonstop nightlife.

It’s true that the city—clogged with traffic and choked with fumes—doesn’t make a good first impression. But wander around the regal…

Gent

Gent Travel Guide

Gent (also called Ghent in English, Gand in French) originated at the confluence of the rivers Leie and Schelde. It is said that Gent is the child of Leie (personified as Lise) and Schelde (personified as Scaldus). These two figures have become symbols of the city and often appear on civic buildings, such as the old fish…

Detroit

Detroit Travel Guide

Founded in 1701 as “la Ville d’Etroit”—the City at the Straits—Detroit is one of the Midwest’s oldest cities. Originally a strategic Native American and French trading post, by the mid-19th century the city was compared to Paris because of its scenic parks and beautiful architecture. The 20th century saw Detroit’s evolution into the modern Motor City, the…

The Central and Southern Aegean Coast

The Central and Southern Aegean Coast Travel Guide

The central and southern Aegean is a region of rolling hills, mountains surrounded by clear blue seas, and glorious white-sand beaches are just a few of the reasons why. Wandering through historic ruins, boating, scuba diving, basking in the Anatolian sun, and eating fresh fish are just some…

West Texas

West Texas Travel Guide

As soon as visitors set their soles on the dry-as-the-Sahara soil of West Texas, they’ll realize they’ve entered a completely different world. Remote from urban population centers, isolated within the northern plains of the Chihuahua Desert, West Texas lives by its own rules, not unlike Australia’s Outback. It’s a land of flat and rugged beauty…

Catalonia and Valencia

Catalonia and Valencia Travel Guide

The long curve of the Mediterranean from the French border to the mouth of the Turia River encompasses the two autonomous communities of Catalonia and Valencia, with the country’s second- and third-largest cities (Barcelona and Valencia, respectively). Rivals in many respects, the two communities share a language, history, and culture that set them clearly apart…

Milwaukee

Milwaukee Travel Guide

A friendly Midwestern atmosphere prevails in Milwaukee, which is not so much a city as a large collection of neighborhoods situated on the shores of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin’s largest city is an international seaport and the state’s primary commercial and manufacturing center. Modern steel-and-glass high-rises occupy much of the downtown area, but they share the skyline with…