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  • Safe Travel Destinations for 2026/2027
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    Safe Travel Destinations for 2026/2027

    If you are seeking restorative journeys filled with history rather than headlines, start planning your own Safe Travel Destinations for 2026/2027.

  • Venice for Day-Trippers

    Venice for Day-Trippers

    Is Venice for Day-Trippers? About 19 million Day-Trippers each year visit Venice Italy for only one day. Can you imagine an additional 52,000 people…

  • Venice-Simplon Orient Express

    Venice-Simplon Orient Express

    Bond, James Bond Who hasn’t heard of the Orient Express Train? Agatha Christie wrote the book in the 1930’s. Three movies were released based…

  • Milan

    Milan

    The Trip: When you think of Italian cities to visit you probably think of Rome, Venice and Florence. Milan does not come to mind for most…

  • Lucerne Switzerland

    Lucerne Switzerland

    Milan to Lucerne: Switzerland seems to be a favorite destination for nearly everyone we meet. We had also heard comments about the high cost…

  • Easy Dorsoduro

    Easy Dorsoduro

    No Crowds: During normal times, without Covid, Venice is awash with tourists. So many in fact, visitors are deterred from visiting or returning to…

  • Paris on Two Wheels

    Paris on Two Wheels

    Two wheels could be a bicycle, a motor scooter or even a Segway. I think it is fair to say, most visitors don’t think…