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 ...

Charming lakeside city offers an enticing, I-could-live-here glimpse of the appealing and uniquely Swiss urban quality of ...

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 ...

European travel expert Rick Steves has a surprising recommendation when it comes to cheap, reliable food for Americans spending time abroad.

Over 300 public TV stations could air WCET-TV's one-hour Cincinnati Pops concert program with Steves introducing popular classical works from seven European nations. For 25 years, Rick Steves has ...

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 celebrates the Christmas season throughout the European continent. From manger scenes and mistletoe to wintry wonderlands, RICK STEVES' EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS celebrates the Christmas season ...

Kelsey Fowler is a New York City-based journalist who specializes in covering travel, business, and news. She is a frequent contributor to Travel + Leisure and currently works at The New York Times as ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with travel writer and host Rick Steves about "overtourism" — when some locales prove too popular — and how not contribute to it. Summer travel season is ready to take off.