Travel recommendation and advise from my 20+ years traveling around the world.
May 25, 2014 by Caroline Costello, SmarterTravel Staff The secret to getting two vacations for nearly the price of one? Free stopovers. A lot of major airlines offer free or low-cost stops in hub cities to flyers continuing on to other end-point destinations. Tiresome layovers or breakneck connections these are not. Stopovers are overnight or multi-night stays in destinations—mini sojourns on the way to... 
March 20, 2015 by Patricia Magaña, SmarterTravel Staff Depart Wednesday, Return TuesdayWe’ve all heard this sage advice before, but now we have solid proof to corroborate the claim. Kayak’s 2015 Travel Hacker Guide cements what was once just a theory: Hop across the pond on a Wednesday and return home on a Tuesday for the absolute cheapest Europe flight. The OTA giant employed a year’s... 
June 25, 2015 7:40 pm by Rick Steves With the value of the euro lower than in the past, I’ve been able to experience Europe without as much of a strain on my wallet. I’m enjoying thinking of the euro as being worth a buck—whether or not that’s the official exchange rate. The euro is used in 19 countries throughout the continent. That means more than 300 million Europeans have the same... 
March 1, 2016 3:55 pm by Ed Perkins The 26-country no-border-control Schengen area is in danger of collapsing under the migration threat. Presumably, the new border controls will be for no more than two years. But for now, you have to figure on reverting to the bad old days of mind-numbing border hassles within the area. The basic idea of eliminating border formalities—and delays—was quite simple....
