Share The Article Had enough of the Madrid and Barcelona clichés? Those 2 cities are probably where 90% of Spain-bound visitors from the U.S. will land, and beautiful as they may be, they’re far from being the best the Iberian country has to offer. As a matter of fact, unless you’re fine with passing a […]
Share The Article Thinking of finally acting on that last-minute sunny getaway to Europe? It may be too late for oceanfront villas on the French Riviera and rooftop cocktails in Barcelona, unless you’ve got thousands of dollars sitting somewhere in a bank account. Europe’s top tourism hotspots are either completely out of reach for budget-savvy […]
Share The Article Not Paris and its hordes of Eiffel Tower scammers. Not Rome with the jam-packed Historic Center and ornate fountains behind paywalls. Definitely not Barcelona. If their menacing graffiti is anything to go by, Catalans don’t even want you in their city, to begin with. Europe’s fastest-growing destination right now is a picture-perfect […]
Share The Article Trust me, I love the zero-stress appeal of a great mega-resort just as much as anyone else when I desperately need a break. But while Cancun, Cabo, and Puerto Vallarta tend to hog the spotlight for US travelers, my 20 years of flying south from LAX have taught me one thing: real […]
Share The Article I have spent the last 10 years traveling to Mexico and I completely understand the magnetic pull of a tropical beach vacation. But after years of and exploring this incredible country, I can confidently tell you that some of Mexico’s most jaw-dropping destinations are completely landlocked. If you are willing to trade […]
Share The Article A couple of months ago, Liz and I were standing in the TSA line at SDF in Louisville, holding nothing more than our standard driver’s licenses. If you looked at us, we could have easily been catching a quick domestic hop to Chicago or Atlanta for the weekend. But just a few […]
Share The Article There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes with modern mega-resort travel. You fly thousands of miles just to wake up at 6:00 AM to “reserve” a pool chair with a towel, pay $25 for a watered-down margarita, and fight through shoulder-to-shoulder crowds just to see the ocean. It completely drains […]
Share The Article Only a few months after one of Europe’s longest rail journeys was announced, linking three of Central Europe’s most beautiful countries, Leo Express has already made it even better. The operator has just added brand-new couchette carriages to what was previously an all-seated overnight train. In other words? No more trying to […]
Share The Article If you have international travel plans over the next few weeks, you need to check your itinerary. Within a chaotic 24-hour window heading into August 2026, the United States Department of State and multiple U.S. Embassies have rapidly issued synchronized security and health alerts across 16 different countries. These alerts are not […]
Share The Article U.S. Embassies Issue Travel Alerts For These 3 European Countries Amid Wildfires If you are currently packing your bags for a highly anticipated late summer trip to Europe, you need to check your itinerary immediately. Across the Mediterranean, an intense heatwave coupled with severely dry conditions has ignited a series of devastating, […]