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You can find hotels that allow smoking, hotels that allow pets, and hotels that allow early check-in, but you can’t always find hotels that cater to gay and lesbian travelers.
Until now, that is.
Expedia.com launched yesterday its “LGBT-welcoming” feature, as well as its LGBT store: a Web page that — with the help of the International [...]

Lonely Planet just released their list of the best places in the world to experience music. We all know that Austin, Texas and Nashville are great live music towns, right? What about hearing live music in Europe?
There are 10 cities from all over the world on the list, and five of them are in Europe. [...]

We’ve all run into that kind of tourist. The one who’s so intent on doing the city that they spend more time looking at their guidebook than the monuments, the ones who can only admire a beautiful view from from behind a camera lens. Done-it-all tourists are a pain once they get back home. You’re [...]

This is the first part of a two-part interview with Amy Strother, an au pair who spent a year caring for a family in Switzerland.

What made you first decide to become an au pair?
It had always been a lifelong dream of mine to be fluent in French and I absolutely loved to travel. So [...]

The locals guide to your favorite city.

I was introduced to this delicious cocktail on a week-long trip to Berlin. My friends and I were at a bar, and although I was really enjoying the German beer in general, I wanted to try something different. “Different” and “beer” aren’t usually found in the same sentence in Germany due to the long, proud [...]

As an organization, Berlinale seems sweet – loving, even. Its web site is pink, its mascot is a bear, and it has an option to donate to the Haiti relief fund on its homepage – right under a tip to bring sturdy shoes along on your trip to wintry Berlin. While other film festivals may [...]

Berlin has a proud history of artful hedonism.  In the Weimar Republic of the 1920’s, the freedom and chaos of the post-war era was expressed with wild abandon.  In the ‘80s, the city’s underground scene made a name for itself on a global scale.  In 2010, Berlin’s creative energy and frantic nightlife play off each [...]

If you thought drive-ins were an all-American pastime (and a dead one at that), think again. Auto-Kino! – a temporary exhibition at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin – puts visitors in an indoor, makeshift drive-in, proving that vehicular voyeurism can still be quite a treat.
The exhibition begins Friday, February 5 and includes a selection of over 100 [...]

Are you a struggling student or budgeting traveler searching for the cheapest way to discover the beauty and history of the European city you’re visiting? Look no further than Sandeman’s New Europe, a company offering free walking tours of many European cities, at the extremely low price of, well, free!
These aren’t just your run of [...]