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Buying a prepackaged tour or independent vacation can make your trip less expensive and more hassle-free. Because everything is prearranged, you'll spend less time planning.
Operators that handle several hundred thousand travelers per year can use their purchasing power to give you a good price. Their high volume may also indicate financial stability. But some small companies provide more person...
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 The hands of artists have been busy in Europe for more than four thousand years. There is a fair bit of work to be seen...
If you're not among those who are only dragged unhappily to museums and galleries—obligatory "culture time" to be served on your way to Harrod's and the Hard Rock—then perhaps you're among those who choose your destinations, in a large part, on the thin...
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For many Americans, the most compelling of Europe's many attractions is the tangible connection to history that it offers. Living as we do in a nation where nearly half of "the past" has been photographed—and more than a tenth of it...
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After three hours underground, the acetylene flame on my friend’s miner’s hardhat guttered down to the size of a pencil tip and he stumbled into the darkness ahead, scraping his cheek on the dark blue marble ledge which overhung the stream we were following.
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As I scrambled down the cliff, I could hear the distant sound of waves crashing against the rocks. But it wasn't until my water bottle fell off my backpack and landed inches from the cliff's edge that I realized how steep a drop it was to the churning ocean hundreds of feet below. I peered over the edge and still couldn't see the bottom.
I was in good hands, though. My guide, Josie Nahoe Mulloy, was the...
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Few sights in Europe are so dramatic as your first glimpse of the fortress castle of Salzburg, looming high above the city with the blue-green foothills of the Alps as a backdrop. Known as the Hohensalzburg, the massive compound -- built from the 11th century onward as an endless series of additions to an archbishop's estate -- is only the most visible sign that this historic mountain town, one of Europe's...
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