With more than 12 million North American travelers expected to head for Europe this year, a new editorial collaboration between Smithsonian magazine and Rick Steves will attract consumers seeking ...

The Cotswold region, an 800-square-mile chunk of England two hours northwest of London, is crisscrossed with hedgerows, dotted with storybook villages and sprinkled with sheep. Cotswold villages, such ...

The quintessence of charming England is the “West Country”: quaint Cotswold villages with their fine churches, manor homes, and gastropubs; Wells, England’s smallest cathedral town; and the New Age ...

Everywhere in the news, Europe is looking to be opening back up for American tourists. This is music to Public Television star Rick Steves, a beloved American tour guide, and host of his many travel ...

While it’s a temptation for a travel writer to overuse the word quaint, I save quaint for Britain’s Cotswolds, a gentle, hilly region two hours northwest of London. By quaint, I don’t mean just ...

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here's a reminder of the fun that awaits us in Europe at the other end of ...

Cruising in Europe's Baltic or North Sea can satisfy even an independent traveler like me. Stepping off the gangway, I'm immersed in the vivid life of a different European city ...