As we were planning our visit to France, we learned that the famous bicycle race would be passing to the west and south of Lyon in late July. We made…

One sunny afternoon we took a short train ride twenty miles northeast of Lyon to the medieval hilltop town of Pérouges. Although inhabited since before Roman times, most of the…

When the sun came out in Lyon we paid a visit to the city’s largest park, Parc de la Tête d’Or. We wandered by the deer field and made our…

Lyon was cool and damp our first few days in town, so we spent time in some of its more interesting museums.

We left Milan early one morning to catch the TGV to the northwest and the French city of Lyon. The third largest city in France, we’ve been enjoying its restaurants,…

When we weren’t visiting all those churches, here’s what we saw during the rest of our time in Milan.

One fine Tuesday we rode the train north to visit the picturesque town of Como near the Swiss border. Only 30 minutes from Milan, the town sits at the southern end of the…

The cheapest way to see art and history in any Italian city is to visit churches and cemeteries.They rarely have admission costs and are open seven days a week. During…

We flew out of Athens on a warm Friday afternoon and into the northern Italian metropolis of Milan. Our first stop was the city’s cathedral, known as the Duomo. The…

No vacation in Greece is complete without a trip to their famous islands, but we weren’t really in a position to spend the time and money to travel out to…