Travel

Stockholm, Sweden, highlights include the fika (coffee break), summertime military band parades, museums and other attractions in Gamla Stan. Image by Mikael Damkier, Dreamstime
Rick Steves

A Stroll Through Stockholm

Sleek and progressive yet steeped in tradition, including the ‘fika’

By Rick Steves | October 4, 2022
Evening view of Badshahi Mosque Lahore, Badshahi Mosque is one of the most Famous Mouque of Asia and IndoPak. it was built arooud 1671. Retirement provides a unique opportunity to travel the world. These five ideas give you the chance to be a globe-trotting traveler.
Travel

Retirement Travel Ideas

October 3, 2022
In Salema, Portugal, octopi are fished out of the sea as they have been for years and where family restaurants serve up seafood and service.
Rick Steves

Salema in the Algarve: Water Is Still Life

A peaceful pocket on Portugal’s lively south coast

By Rick Steves | September 27, 2022
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Travel

Eight Top-5 Lists for Savoring Fall in the Mountains

Find your favorites in Virginia

September 26, 2022
Baden-Baden's casino has the elegance of a royal palace, but anyone who pays the fee and meets the dress code can come to gamble or people-watch. Travel writer Rick Steves transports us to Germany’s Black Forest and to Baden-Baden, through a wealth of natural beauty, rich traditions, a historic casino, and pleasurable mineral spas.
Rick Steves

Germany’s Black Forest and Baden-Baden

Natural beauty, rich traditions, ostentatious casino, and a relaxing bath

By Rick Steves | September 20, 2022
Rick Steves takes us to Vernazza, along the Italian Riviera in Cinque Terre, recalling a kind-hearted Vernazzan man and a peaceful view.
Rick Steves

Vernazza: Lorenzo’s view

‘Rest here. The view is nice’

By Rick Steves | September 13, 2022
grandparents with boy on beach. Photo by Wavebreakmedia Ltd, Dreamstime. for article on revisiting vacation spots of the past
Nostalgia

Revisiting Vacation Spots of the Past

Can you go back again?

By Charlie Fletcher | September 12, 2022
Writing on Belfast's Peace Wall. In Rick Steves’ Europe, the travel writer examines the context of several significant European walls: built in times of mistrust and danger, torn down to be displaced by interdependence and empathy. In Rick Steves’ Europe, the travel writer examines the context of several significant European walls: built in times of mistrust and danger, torn down to be displaced by interdependence and empathy. Image by Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli.
Rick Steves

The Meaning of European Walls

Europe tears down walls – and builds bridges

By Rick Steves | September 6, 2022
bird watching the annual hawk migration along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Larry Metayer, Dreamstime. Writer Martha Steger shares experiences as a newbie birder and offers benefits and birdwatching tips to help during the season for birding.
Lifestyle

’Tis the Season for Birding

Whether near your home or farther abroad, birds are on the move

By Martha Steger | September 2, 2022
Inside the dome of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building. Travel writer Rick Steves recalls his visit to Berlin’s Reichstag – the German parliament building – and digs beneath the entertainment value of travel to examine its value in understanding history, broadening our perspectives, and understanding current events more fully.
History

Berlin’s Reichstag as a History Lesson

Teary-eyed Germans and a big glass dome

By Rick Steves | August 30, 2022

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