The cradle of jazz music, New Orleans is a little out of step with the United States when it comes to dining, architecture and just day-to-day living. It’s a city of Creole cottages, palatial townhouses, elegant iron balconies and shaded courtyards. Out of the French Quarter vintage streetcars rattle past rows of southern live oaks …
Pizza, pasta, the treasures of ancient Rome, the romantic towns of Naples’ Bay, the soaring heights of Vesuvius and Etna, the picture-perfect canals of Venice and some of the planet’s most fascinating museums and galleries are just some of the treats in store for travelers making their way to this veritable jewel of the Med. …
A variety of factors come together to make Cary one of America’s top cities to live in. On paper what catches the eye is a low crime-rate and centres of education and research nearby, but when you get here you’ll be stunned by the profusion of parks and greenery. In Cary you’ll never be more …
Salinas is a small but sophisticated city a short way in from Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast. Agriculture has been a way of life in the Salinas Valley for a couple of hundred years and these farms formed the backdrop for many of Salinas-native John Steinbeck’s novels. The diversity of things to do in …
Just east of the Rockies is this beautiful former frontier town, the old heart of which has hardly changed for more than a century. It’s a fabulous destination for some sightseeing, fine dining, shopping and nightlife. Not just North Colorado’s cultural capital, Fort Collins today is a major beer town with 20 breweries, so if …
Wichita began life as a cowtown (a time and style of life that can still be explored today thanks to the living Cowtown Museum) but has grown to be the largest city in the state of Kansas as well as the self-proclaimed Air Capital of the World. This claim is not made lightly with more …
Rock and roll your way to Cleveland and visit some of the quality attractions there. You won’t be disappointed by the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which was brought to the city in an attempt to bring more tourists to the area. Other efforts to increase the appeal of Cleveland to visitors include …
McKinney (Texas) is less than 30 minutes from downtown Dallas but its atmosphere and character are worlds apart. Rated as one of the USA’s most liveable places, this is a historic city with an identity all its own and family-run businesses. At McKinney’s ensemble of preserved 19th-century buildings you can see how Texans lived 150 …
Set at the junction of Oregon’s McKenzie and Willamette Rivers, Eugene is a university city with recent history rooted in the hippie movement and counterculture. The Eugene Saturday Market and the Oregon Country Fair are hippie institutions that continue to thrive into their fifth decade, and help perpetuate progressive ideas like ethical sourcing, knowledge-sharing, gifting …
In the Antelope Valley on the western side of the Mojave Desert, Palmdale is a small city surrounded by a vast arid landscape that evokes the golden age of western movies. One of the city’s claims to fame is its US Air Force testing centre, where aircraft like the legendary Lockheed Blackbird took their first …