Travel pro Rick Steves often tells people to skip crowded Mykonos, Greece for other, less famous islands. However, there is one island destination he says is a must-visit, just a 30-minute shuttle ...
With its multifaceted history, welcoming people, dramatic ruins and stunning vistas, the Peloponnesian Peninsula has it all. Yet it is one of least explored parts of Greece. If you want to get away ...
For years I’d flown over Stockholm’s famed archipelago, or glided by it on a big cruise ship heading for Helsinki. When I finally dived into the 80 miles of scenic islands that stretch out from ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with travel writer and host Rick Steves about "overtourism" — when some locales prove too popular — and how not contribute to it. Summer travel season is ready to take off.
If you could take a road trip with your younger self, how well do you think the two of you would get along? Would you have an admiration for each other? Would you even recognize each other? Rick ...
If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Driving about an hour west of Athens, you cross over the Corinth Canal – a four-mile-long shipping ...