European Travel

My wife Sharon has a habit of finding places for her birthday trips that I’ve never heard of before. Sometimes that means adding a restaurant or attraction to our plans. …

Needless to say, Mozart sounds a little different when techno beats are shaking your seat. That’s how we ended up spending one of our nights in Vienna. What we thought …

Self-cleaning public bathrooms have been common across Europe for years. Sometimes you have to pay to use them, and sometimes they’re free. Either way, they usually look the same: a …

Before our trip to Salzburg, Munich, and Frankfurt, we did what most travelers do — we looked up the Christmas markets in each city, read all the articles, and made …

One of our friends was recently in Norway – we haven’t been yet (but want to), so I lived vicariously through their Facebook posts and reels. Towards the end of …

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. The first time I went to Japan, I had little idea of how to use a squat toilet. It was …

Over the past few years, travel via subscription service has become an option for those who consider themselves to be, or who would like to be, frequent travelers. Uber’s subscription …

They say nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Fun Fact! Although the saying is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin (in his last letter to a French scientist in 1789), …

When we travel internationally, we rarely use cash. There are very few places that are “cash only,” so we use credit cards for virtually all of our expenses, making sure …