There are places in Europe that have become victims of their own beauty. The Amalfi Coast. Santorini. Venice. Barcelona. The Algarve. All of them extraordinary. All of them, in summer, operating well beyond the threshold of what makes travel enjoyable. This isn’t a secret. Everyone who has been to Positano in August knows. Everyone who […]
Stories That Inspire the Way You Travel
I've been traveling since before I could walk. Literally. So when I write about a place, it's not from a brochure. It's from a terrace, a back road, a kitchen table, or a train I took because the timing was right. Some pieces are practical — the timing that matters, the question to ask before you book. Some are just stories I couldn't stop thinking about long enough to keep to myself. Pour yourself a coffee. Or wine. Probably wine.
Pull up a chair. This is where the stories live.
The multi-country Europe trip works when the combination is honest. Here are three that genuinely do — and how to approach each one.
I’m home. Ten days in Portugal with Collette, twenty new acquaintances, and absolutely nothing on my to-do list. No restaurant reservations to confirm. No driving routes to second-guess. No backup hotels bookmarked in case something didn’t feel right. For the first time in longer than I can remember, my only job was to show up. […]
Portugal looks small on a map. It is not small. That’s the first thing worth knowing before you start planning. The country is roughly the size of Indiana, which sounds manageable until you realize that the drive from the southern coast to the northern wine regions takes the better part of a day, and that’s […]
Portugal and I have history. Not the tourist kind. Not the “took a river cruise and loved the pastéis de nata” kind. I mean I just keep coming back, the way you return to a place that keeps showing you something new. Slow mornings in Lisbon cafés where nobody is in a hurry because the […]
