Europe
Rome or Florence for 3 Days? The Real Cost and the Better Fit
For a three-day trip, Florence costs a couple about 105 euros more than Rome. Here is the attraction basket, the hotel gap,…
Europe
For a three-day trip, Florence costs a couple about 105 euros more than Rome. Here is the attraction basket, the hotel gap,…
Europe
Pantheon 7 euro, Trevi Fountain 2 euro, Venice just stopped charging. The current cost of Italy’s big sights, checked against official ticketing…
Cruise Planning
The advertised cruise fare is only the beginning. See a realistic cruise cost breakdown, 9 commonly forgotten packing items, and grab a…
City Guides
Milan has the opposite problem from Venice and Florence. Nobody accuses it of being too romantic or too weighed down by its…
City Guides
Venice has a reputation problem, and it’s the opposite of Florence’s. Florence gets undersold. Venice gets oversold, and then undersold in a…
Europe
Most visitors give Naples a single day. They see the waterfront, eat a pizza that quietly ruins every pizza that comes after…
Europe
Rome runs on two thousand years of history and, apparently, about two hundred ways to separate a visitor from another fifty euros.…
Europe
Italy does not run on the honor system. Somewhere in the last decade, the country quietly decided that showing up and buying…
City Guides
Florence has a reputation problem. Not a bad one. An incomplete one. The city gets marketed as the birthplace of the Renaissance,…
City Guides
Let me paint you a picture. You’ve just landed at Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, if you want to be fancy about…