15 Best Things to Do in St. Pete Beach (FL)
Part of the Gulf Beaches, St. Pete Beach is a sublime coastal escape on a barrier island. The city was incorporated in the 1950s and is actually made up of …
Month: February 2020
15 Best Things to Do in Wauchula (FL)
The seat of Hardee County is a quaint small town surrounded by pastoral farmland. Flowing by, just east of Wauchula is the scenic Peace River. This might be my favorite …
15 Best Things to Do in Damme (Belgium)
In a wide-open polder landscape, Damme is a historic fortified town that grew up in Medieval times as a trading outpost for nearby Bruges. Under Napoleon a big strip of …
15 Best Things to Do in DeFuniak Springs (FL)
This beautiful and historic city, often named among America’s best small towns, was built around a unique almost perfectly circular spring-fed lake. DeFuniak Springs was developed in the 1880s as …
14 Best Things to Do in Fellsmere (FL)
This laid-back city is a few miles in from the Atlantic shore in Indian River County. For me Fellsmere embodies the best of both the coast and the inland rural …
15 Best Things to Do in Mouscron (Belgium)
Up to 1963 this city in Hainaut was part of West Flanders, but switched to Wallonia because of its large francophone population. It’s no exaggeration to say that Mouscron is …
15 Best Things to Do in Verviers (Belgium)
For hundreds of years up to the 1950s Verviers was an international byword for high-quality fabrics like woollen cloth. The riches generated by this industry can be seen in the …
15 Best Things to Do in Spa (Belgium)
Resting in a valley close to where the Ardennes massif meets the Hautes Fagnes plateau is the world’s original spa resort. Spa grew up around a natural source long praised …
15 Best Things to Do in Durbuy (Belgium)
In 1331 the Count of Luxembourg John of Bohemia granted city privileges to this little settlement on a meander in the Ourthe River. That’s quite a comical idea today, as …
14 Best Things to Do in Mascotte (FL)
This understated rural city is on the western flank of the Clermont Chain of Lakes. In fact, a big portion of Mascotte’s area is made up of water, and there’s …