Ze Good Life in Zurich
Currently, the largest city in Switzerland (with nearly 400,000 people), Zurich has been designated the city with the best quality of life in the world - for seven years in a row.
Basel, Switzerland
With suburbs in three countries (and that airport on French soil), Basel represents a kind of postmodern EU, where ideas and cultures are as fluid as Schengen Area border crossings.
Blissful Culture Overdose in Basel, Switzerland
The airport is in France – but your ticket says Switzerland – and the official language is German. Carmen Sandiego, where are we now? Located on the river Rhine in the northwestern corner of Switzerland, where the borders of Switzerland,…
Bern Switzerland
Consistently ranked among the world's top ten cities for quality of life, Bern was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
The Beauty of Bern: Springtime in Switzerland
Out in front of our hotel along the river Aare, we mounted our two-wheeled kick scooters and set out across the bridge into the medieval center of the city of Bern. Giggling like Pee-wee Herman and giddy with exhilaration, we glided over the bridge as…
The Wonders of Iguazú Falls, Argentina
Imagine scores of butterflies fluttering around your hands and face. Resplendent butterflies in indigo and orange, and others in red and black, they land on your fingers and forearms, feasting on the salt from your skin as you walk. In the distance, the…
Iguazú Falls, Argentina
"Iguazú" means "big water" in the language of the ancients - and apparently, when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt glimpsed the massive Argentine waterfalls, she murmured, "Oh, poor Niagara."
Uncovering Lima, Peru’s Latest Treasure
“More dry than the Sahara,” that’s what our Lima Tours guide kept repeating to us as we followed her intrepid lead as she happily urged us higher and higher up the Huaca Pucllana. A pre-Incan pyramid of adobe bricks, Huaca Pucllana is located…