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From religion and reformation to chocolate and cheese, Geneva is a city rich in history and high on taste!

If you’re a student traveler, there’s a good chance you’ve run across this problem: RyanAir (or your budget airline of choice) flew you into the tiniest and most unused airport around and now you don’t know how to get to the city. Or perhaps you’ve run into a related problem: you want to get to [...]

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 [...]

Bar-hopping is one of those study abroad student pastimes that never ceases to get old. For every new generation of student travelers, the prospect of crawling through a new city searching for the best watering holes is one of the most exciting things on the agenda.
In Rome, there is this awesome bar made completely of [...]

Since up to a million visitors descend on Rome between Palm Sunday (March 28) and Pasquetta (Easter Monday, April 5), I thought it would be appropriate to do a post on how to spend (and survive) Easter in the Catholic City.
Of course, the quintessential place to be on Easter (and other holy days of the [...]

Okay, so I know it’s only March and, for most of us, summer seems ever out of reach as winter moves on at a snail’s pace. But summer is actually on the way and it is never too early to start thinking about your plans. Will you wait tables at the local pizza place across [...]

During the day, the numerous ruins of Rome may seem like nothing more than jumbled heaps of crumbled stone. Yet as the sun begins to set and the ruins start to glow, those illuminated piles of rocks slowly begin to transform into the magnificent famed forums, churches and temples of yesteryear. Trajan’s Market is one [...]

Whenever I go to Europe, I’m always looking for places to run. It isn’t easy. In some cities I’ve run back and forth along short stretches of sidewalk until I felt dizzy. Sometimes the charming cobblestone streets are so uneven I run in perpetual fear of twisting an ankle. Sometimes the only option is to [...]

Italians aren’t big on cocktails. In general, you drink wine with dinner and beer with pizza and that’s about it. But at aperitivo, the traditional pre-dinner drink that corresponds to America’s happy hour, the Italian cocktail makes its relatively rare appearance. And perhaps to make up for their rarity, Italian cocktails are pretty fantastic.
One simple [...]

Now that the Roman Forum is pay-per-view, the Pantheon is my favorite free monument in Rome. The piazza in front of the Pantheon is a great place to sit and relax for a while, and the Pantheon itself is a beautiful building and an amazing example of ancient engineering.
The most impressive thing about the Pantheon, [...]