Tagged: alps

What's It Like to Hike the Tour du Mont Blanc?

This interview was taken from a recent edition of the Frommer's podcast. Pauline Frommer interviewed her adult child, Veronica Stewart-Frommer. The transcript has been edited for…

Best Summer Destinations in Europe: Where to Go in 2025

Updated March 18, 2024 Many travel pros will tell you to save Europe for the late spring or early fall in order to avoid extreme temperatures and summer crowds. But an international…

Europe in Autumn: Where to Go in September, October, and November

[Last updated July 31, 2023] For travelers averse to Europe’s summer crowds, heat, and prices, autumn is an ideal season to visit many parts of the continent. What’s more, Europe puts…

These New Hikes in Switzerland Are Led by a "Mountain Air Sommelier"

Plenty of travel experiences focus on showing you the sights, but how many specialize in sniffing the scents? To help address the sensory imbalance, Switzerland's Graubünden region…

Travel Pioneer: Meet Erna Low, The Mother of The European Ski Trip

Long before après ski gatherings, chairlifts, and snow trains, it was a young Austrian woman who forged the first path to mass-market package ski holidays. In 1933, Viennese student…

"House of Gucci" Filming Locations You Can Visit in Italy

To make House of Gucci, director Ridley Scott led cast and crew on an enviable tour of Italy. The production traveled to stylish cities, historic villas, and snow-covered Alps to tell…

These Stunning Milky Way Photos Will Make You Want to Take a Stargazing Trip ASAP

About 100 billion stars make up the Milky Way Galaxy, according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. But out here in our suburban solar system—located 25,000 light years or so from…

Amazing New Observatory Floats Two Miles Up in the Italian Alps

Here's a strong candidate for any traveler's post-pandemic wish list. The brand-new, glass-and-steel Ötzi Peak 3251m observation deck overlooks the Italian Alps at an altitude of…

Switzerland Just Won the Gondola War (If That Exists) With This Crazy Tramway

Temperatures that plummet 20 degrees below zero. A hostile, windy crag 2.5 miles (4,000 m) high, totally devoid of trees. Air so thin that people can only wheeze, creeping around at…

3 Swiss Peaks for Every Fitness Level—And How to Do Them

Set in a valley on the edge of Lake Lucerne and surrounded by the Swiss Alps, the city of Lucerne is one of Switzerland's most popular destinations. Best known for covered bridges that…

James Bond Museum Opening in Austrian Alps

You'll have to wait until the fall of 2019 for the next James Bond movie, which is being directed by Danny Boyle and stars Daniel Craig in what is reportedly his last outing as…

Triglav National Park: Hiking Slovenia's Stunning Alps

Situated in the northwest corner of tiny Slovenia, a nation on the Adriatic sea between eastern Italy, Austria, and Croatia, you'll find Triglav—the second-oldest national park in…

Crossing the Alps via the Gotthard Panorama Express

The former William Tell Express was one of the crown jewels of Swiss travel. The train would decamp from the placid banks of Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland, clamber some 5,400…

A Hotel Without Walls or Ceilings in the Swiss Alps

There's no such thing as a partial or obstructed view at the Null Stern Hotel in the Swiss Alps.That's because there are no such things as walls or ceilings here.Dreamed up by…

Swiss Hotel Without Walls, New Machu Picchu Restrictions, and It's Too Hot to Fly in Phoenix: Today's Travel Briefing

JUNE 22, 2017 — Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's hotels, airports, and ancient sites.NEW VISITING RESTRICTIONS AT MACHU PICCHU (Associated Press)Starting in…

Travel Troubleshooter: Want Better Airline Service? Power Up Your Smartphone

Liz Owen needed help, and she needed it fast. She had rescheduled a flight from Washington to Los Angeles on Virgin America to avoid superstorm Sandy, which was about to slam into the…

Brush Up Your Shakespeare in Stratford-Upon-Avon

Anyone visiting England has to see Shakespeare Country, not only for the birthplace of The Bard, but for its other attractions, ranging from Kenilworth Castle to the Cotswolds, all on…

Travel Troubleshooter: Is My Lost Ticket a Lost Cause?

Virgin Atlantic promises Jerry Levine it will send him a paper ticket for his flight from San Francisco to Johannesburg. But when it doesn't, the airline is less than helpful in…