Most of my long trips begin with a red-eye out of Montreal, and a fair number of those red-eyes put me down at Schiphol with hours to spend before the next leg. …
Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, at the base of the CN Tower in Toronto, is a lot of fun, and the Dangerous Lagoon is the best of it. It is the aquarium’s largest …
I am usually disappointed by airport food, and by airport coffee even more. So Café Flor, on Schiphol’s D pier, was a surprise. We stopped there in May while we waited to …
After a morning at the Tower of London, I took a cab to St Paul’s Cathedral. The rain was coming down hard enough that walking the half-hour along the Thames, the better …
The Tower of London is famous for the Crown Jewels, the executions, the medieval fortress walls, and the ravens. Of all the things to do in London, a visit here is one …
The South Bank is the southern edge of the River Thames in central London, running roughly from Lambeth Bridge in the west to Tower Bridge in the east. The stretch most people …
The White Tower sits at the centre of the Tower of London, both literally and architecturally. Most visitors walk past it on the way to the Crown Jewels, glance up, take a …
Few places in London capture the city’s energy, charm, and theatrical spirit quite like Covent Garden. Filled with historic market buildings, lively piazzas, elegant architecture, street performers, cafés, boutiques, and cultural institutions, …
There are few places in London where history feels as immediate and layered as it does at the Tower of London. Rising beside the River Thames with its imposing stone walls, towers, …
There are few landmarks in the world as instantly recognizable as Tower Bridge. Rising above the River Thames with its dramatic towers, suspension elements, and distinctive blue details, Tower Bridge has become …
There are certain landmarks that become so deeply associated with a city that they begin to shape its identity, and the London Eye has undoubtedly become one of modern London’s defining symbols. …
There are certain cities that feel cinematic no matter the season, and London is undoubtedly one of them. The city carries a distinctive atmosphere shaped by centuries of history, royal tradition, architecture, …
Vienna is not a city that reveals itself all at once. Its beauty unfolds gradually, through imperial palaces and hidden courtyards, through music drifting from open windows, through elegant cafés where time …
Vienna is often associated with imperial palaces, grand cafés, classical music, and centuries of history woven into its streets. Yet one of the things that makes the city so compelling is that …
