The 10-day Antigua and Barbuda Carnival attracts visitors from all over the world. This annual event commemorates the emancipation of slavery on the island, and it’s one of the premier cultural events in the...

This post was last updated on September 1, 2023. While the idea of a nude beach can be enough to make us prudish Americans giggle and conjure up images of Wolf of Wall Street-esque hellbent parties, the...

Everyone loves chocolate, and consequently, this tasty treat has managed to insert itself into our lives in a variety of ways. The history of chocolate is ancient and unique. The earliest known use of...

It is eight o’clock in the morning on September the twenty fourth. Florentine traffic pounds by outside of the open hostel window. The room is musty, the smell of mold so faint that I wonder if I’m...

I'll never forget the time I was visiting Florence and I walked out of my hotel for the night only to find the entire Arno River lit up with the ethereal glow of floating lanterns. The sky was alight with the...

Although Iceland is a small country (it's the least densely populated country in Europe with only about 300,000 people living on a land mass about the size of Kentucky) it has continued to make headlines,...

The #EURef results are in and the UK has voted to leave the European Union (EU) and begin their Brexit.  Pre-Brexit Brits were able to fluidly go back and forth through the 28 nations that comprised the...

As if you needed another excuse to travel to one of the coolest places in the world, Iceland was just named the safest destination in the world! Not only is Iceland the world’s most peaceful country, but...

Though I once was unable to travel to the beach without two checked bags in tow, I've since learned the fine art of packing my entire life into one small (rather pink) carry-on. Last August I did just that. I...

I've been on many wine tours before, but nothing prepared me for the variety of good quality wines I enjoyed in Chile. In just two weeks, I drank hundreds of glasses of whites, rosés, and reds, from all over...

Voluntourism, or the act of traveling to a foreign country to do charitable volunteer work is on the rise, and one of the fastest growing travel trends today. This $2 billion a year industry involves 1.6...

Thanks to airline competition, lower fuel prices and airline capacity growth, we enter the summer of 2016 with lower airfares than we've seen in awhile - score! It's only right to start celebrating these...

Okay, so there's not an aquarium on Antarctica. But we do have seven aquariums on here - that should be enough for you all, right? In celebration of the widespread success of Finding Dory (is anyone really...

Here's a reason to travel that's going to get your blood a-pumping and your heart a-racing -- biking around the world! The record-breaking time is about seven months (195 days and six hours, to be exact) to...