After getting your fill of the capital, gain a different perspective on ancient Greece with this relaxing and history-dense drive through one of the country’s least-explored regions.
Category: Europe
Quick Tips on Five Baltic-Region Capitals, Part Three: You Can’t Unvisit Tallinn’s Eerie Patarei Prison
It’s said that most Estonians know or knew someone who was sent to Patarei, one of the country’s most notorious symbols of Nazi and Soviet terror. Locals say it’s haunted. They may be right.
Five Places to Easily Escape the Crowds in Venice
To evade hordes of barbarian invaders on the mainland, Venice’s founders built the city on 118 islands in the middle of a lagoon. 1,600 years later, you’ll need different tactics to avoid the conquering throng.
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Struggling to Understand Auschwitz
The incomprehensible becomes even more so at this place that is both a sacred memorial to thousands of humans, and an unholy shrine to industrialized inhumanity.
Five Sites You Might Miss in Moscow, but Shouldn’t
For anyone born west of Prague before 1980, the name “Moscow” is singularly rich in mystique, history and connotation. Nestled among the city’s headlining attractions are numerous sites that might go regrettably unnoticed if not sought out.
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Eight Days Driving Planet Iceland’s Ring, Days 1 and 2: Volcano, Reykjavik, Golden Circle and Thórsárdalur
If Yellowstone, Ireland, Hawaii, Norway, the Negev and the Moon had a baby island the size of Kentucky, they’d name it Iceland. It’s like another planet. This itinerary will introduce you to much of the island’s astonishing variety along and near the 1,300-kilometer Ring Road, and will leave you wanting more.
Quick Tips on Five Baltic-Region Capitals, Part Two: A Nouveau Trove in Riga
The Latvian capital boasts arguably the densest concentration of Art Nouveau structures anywhere, the most impressive examples of which can be seen within an area of a few square blocks.
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Paris: If You Have Just Twelve Hours, Love Chocolate and Hate Nuance
If you find yourself with a single day in Paris and want to alienate your hoity toity tourism purism friends while offending francophiles the world over, consider this plan.
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Heavenly Naxos
Naxos is the largest of Greek’s myth-drenched Cyclades Islands but not the most famous, its neighbors Santorini and Mykonos, for example, attracting more attention and considerably more traffic. But you’ll be glad if your itinerary, like that of mythical princess Ariadne, brings you here.
Swiss Bliss: An Idyllic Half-Day Downhill Hike Above Lauterbrunnen
This supremely bucolic region is strewn with pathways that guarantee outsize rewards for the effort invested. Channel your Inner Heidi on one such trail that’s low on exertion yet high on verdant meadows, spectacular vistas and happy-cow headcount.
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