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As with so many travellers, my images of Germany — cute villages, dirndls and lederhosen and fairy-tale castles — are from southern Bavaria, in the foothills of the Alps.

Along the western Mediterranean coast, two easygoing — and easy-to-enjoy — beach towns stand like sister cities on each side of the Franco-Spanish border.

Last summer, I was at a family wedding where a guest told a story that caught my attention. It was about a trip to Disneyland his family and the groom’s had taken when the groom was about eight.

Pilgrimage to Southern Hebrides island captures spirit of single-malt whisky

Back in the day, the best backpackers could expect from a hostel was a rock-hard bunk bed, a grimy shared bathroom, and, with luck, checking out with all their belongings intact.

Back in the summer of 1969, I took my first trip to Europe. My father, a piano importer, brought me to Vienna’s Bösendorfer piano factory. Together, my dad and I watched the world’s finest pianos being built by hand, in hundreds of meticulous steps.

MEXICO CITY — Maps, renderings and charts paper the walls of a government conference room. They lay out in detail the plans for a rail line that could be Mexico’s biggest infrastructure project in a century.

About 4,000 reservations have been made for the new Prince of Whales’ three-hour tours beginning May 1 from Telegraph Cove Resort on northern Vancouver Island.

Glasgow, astride the River Clyde, is a surprising city — and Scotland’s most underrated destination.

A howling wind swirls overhead as waves crash from all directions onto this rocky islet in the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain’s Basque Country. Dark clouds are foreboding and heavy with the impending rain.