Category - Travel

Want to make the most of your trip to a foreign country? Here are some travel tips based on my own (pretty extensive) experience. - Ditch the pre-packaged tours. Use tour groups to get low rates on hotels or airfare, but plan your own tours of the...

Venice is easy to navigate. The city's shaped like a whale; the Grand Canal runs into the mouth and out the tail end. Twisty passages and arched bridges lead off in all directions, opening occasionally onto lively squares. Tour books like to comfort...

I love Florence. I didn't fall in love with Florence right away. The rain and cold were formidable, and getting lost -- two hours circling the hotel but never finding it -- was intimidating. But then came the day that we did everything right. We...

Still in Florence. Last night, revelry continued until 3:30 a.m. After a day of wandering the streets in the rain, I was happy to greet 2006 in my bed, with the covers pulled up to my chinny-chin-chin. But hundreds of other souls gathered outside...