I’m high in the Swiss Alps in a tiny mountain hut on a perch called Ebenalp. Here, a spry grandpa in a sweater as worn as his face pulls a wide-eyed child onto his lap to teach him to drum with old ...

The sidewalk along the Aare River is congested with wet and happy Swiss, hiking upstream in swimsuits just to float back into town. I join them – marveling at how this exercise brings out the silly in ...

Gimmelwald set amid the grandeur of the Bernese Oberland, remains pleasantly stuck in the past. There’s nothing but air between Gimmelwald and the rock face of the Jungfrau three and a half miles away ...

Switzerland is the kind of place that seems to sparkle year-round, from undiscovered Swiss lakeside regions with mountain beauty to vibrant alpine meadows. But, if you're wondering when to go for the ...

Rick Steves is so popular and inspirational that some of his followers on Reddit have dubbed him "the Mr. Rogers of Travel" - ...

Skye Sherman is a travel writer based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Aside from traveling, she's also a pilot, scuba diver, bookworm, and fourth-generation Floridian. Her work has appeared in Travel + ...

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 ...

Rick Steves is committed to eating like a local. He doesn't want "best of" and "top 10" lists; he wants to hear the local language as he digs into fresh food, rather than eating at restaurants that ...