More on Europe
By Benoit Lebourgeois
Years before Henry Ford revolutionized the car industry, a certain Karl Benz of Germany received a patent for what is considered to be the...
Janis Cooke Newman
The best way to get to know the culture of any place is to eat your way through it. This is especially true in Barcelona, the epicenter of...
By Christopher Reynolds
So you hate royal weddings. Or you love them. Or maybe you've caught yourself attending to arcane details of Prince William and Kate...
Judging from this photo taken by Los Angeles Times reader "reza_239," this place is a little run down. No wonder, considering that it...
The lights are still on at the Eiffel Tower. They keep ringing up sales at Prada in Rome, and London is getting ready to start partying...
By Susan Carpenter
I had two goals before I booked my flight to Europe: Get the lowest price, and travel with the fewest stops possible. Air Berlin offered the...
By Don Shirley
Travel due east across the Atlantic from New York, and the first country you'll encounter is Portugal. But it's often an afterthought for...
By Karen Leland
We were on our way to see the Brandenburg Gate when they came unexpectedly into view across the street — rows of muted gray concrete...
By Susan James
The 45th annual Art Cologne, the most important art fair in Germany, will open at the Cologne Exhibition Center for five days...
By Jane Engle
Travelers to Europe this year are discovering unwelcome ride-alongs: new and heftier surcharges for flights and cruises. They may even pay...
By Terry Gardner
Today an app may be mightier than a map and far less cumbersome. Here are some apps to tap for Europe that are good for more than one...
By John Henderson
I'm walking along a stretch of the Adriatic Sea that reminds me of another time, another hemisphere. It's not the forest of pine trees...
By Susan James
The Tate Modern Art Museum in London, which opened in 2000 in a...
By Susan James
What is being called France's first major exhibition in nearly 30 years on Impressionist painter Edouard Manet will open April 5 at the...
By Heidi Fuller-Love
A fly landed on my nose, and I wanted to sneeze, but I didn't dare. Muscled masseur Manoli, who had just caked my face with a slime-ball...
By Mary Ellen Monahan
I tell Valentina it's my first time in a banya and that I've forgotten to bring birch branches. "Oh, I'll flog you with mine," she...
By Benoit Lebourgeois
Gusts of wind lashed at the bay windows of the ferry terminal in St-Malo, France. The ground wobbled under my feet. A child whirled at...
By Susan Spano
If you're looking for the hot spots in Europe for 2011, consider these, which promise to be buzzing in the new year: