When beer, music, and convivial spirit of the crowd all come together just right, you feel you know what it is to be Irish.
Like travel in general, breakfast gets you out of your routine and throws you a cultural curve that can add to the memories of your trip.
Europeans love to dress up the settings of everyday life, from their piazzas to their back lanes - and they've been doing it for centuries.
It's hard to top Barcelona, Spain's most cosmopolitan and fun city.
Oscar Wilde once said, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" -- and it's still true.
If you're new to cruising, keep your splurges under control.
With all the intensity in our domestic and political worlds lately, it's a fine time for an escape.
Sunny, out-of-the-way Languedoc is an intoxicating part of the world.
A laboratory of progressive living and tolerance, bottled inside Europe's most 17th-century city.
Long ago I gave up looking for an untouristy, half-timbered medieval German town, but recently, I stumbled upon it in the sleepy town of Erfurt.
