Many European culinary tours are complete vacations lasting a week or more.* Among the best culinary tours… FRANCE The Bordeaux Wine Experience. This tour company is run by husband-and-wife food-a...

When you enter a hotel room, you already know that it’s probably teeming with germs from the many strangers who stayed there before you. But, realistically, what are you going to do about it? Spend...

These tours come with something special: A photography instructor Nothing quite matches the feeling of coming home from a trip with great photos to show for it. Not only is it satisfying to have imag...

If only heading to the mountains for vacation didn't mean battling altitude sickness! The debilitating symptoms—headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, breathlessness, sleep disturbances—t...

Big cars are back. While high gas prices have persuaded many car buyers to think small, automakers have been quietly rolling out a surprising number of appealing and moderately priced large sedans tha...

Most of us feel good when we’re on vacation, right? Not always. Some of us actually start to feel sick the minute we stop working…take a break from our hectic schedule…or arrive at our vacation ...

There are plenty of ways to rent movies nowadays without ever getting up from your couch—and you don’t ever have to pay a late fee. That’s because of the growing availability of movies that you ...

Seeing a giraffe snacking on a sky-high treetop, a family of lion cubs cavorting around a log, a line of elephants making their solemn way across a river—nothing quite matches watching the great ani...

We don’t need another study to tell us that vacations are good for our mental health. Time away from stress can certainly be healing. But leaving anxiety behind once we’re on vacation is sometim...

There are great outdoor markets throughout Europe excelling in items ranging from herring to Soviet-era memorabilia. Amsterdam: Albert Cuyp Market is the city’s oldest, largest and most diverse. Yo...