Europe

What to pack for Milan in April

When I started packing for our trip to Italy and France, I googled the weather obsessively almost every day in the preceding week. It’s entirely

A jam packed day on Lake Como

It’s early April and the sun is already deliciously warm but the gentle breeze (la breva) that blows across Lake Como from the snow capped

Budapest : “Pearl of the Danube”

Budapest is the capital of Hungary and one of the most fascinating cities in eastern Europe. The city is divided in half by the Danube,

Prague – City of Spires and Bridges

Prague has been nicknamed, the “city of a hundred spires” for the many medieval turrets and church steeples that are silhouetted across the skyline. But

Vibrant Vienna, Austria

The horse-drawn carriages of Vienna are just as much a part of Austria’s capital, as the curving shores of the Danube River. The historical coaches