With its bustling cities and amazing mountain towns, North Carolina is a state with plenty of sightseeing options. It also features more than 300 miles of coastline to choose from and thousands of waterfront vacation rentals to book. If you are looking for a nice and quiet place for your next summer coastal vacation, the …
With Rapid City, Custer State Park, and Wild Cave National Park all on your doorstep, we need not write out a list of reasons to fall in love with South Dakota. This sparsely populated state can be found deep in the mid-west, nestled between its northern sister, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Minnesota. Lest we forget that …
When picking the perfect vacation spot, there’s always so many perfect contenders. Of course, there’s the magical island getaway that everyone is always longing to take once in their life. There’s also getaways that involve coastal cities, full of life and music and beaches. But there’s also another kind of vacation, one that’s perfect for …
The resort village of Engelberg in Central Switzerland’s Uri Alps was formed around a medieval monastery. Despite a tempestuous past, Engelberg Abbey still has monks, and remains at the heart of the community, hosting recitals on summer nights. For high-speed downhill skiing and once-in-a-lifetime adventure look to Mount Titlis, a forbidding 3,200-metre peak to the …
In the Landwasser Valley, Davos is a resort village amid the Rhaetian Alps of Graubünden. At an elevation of over 1,500 metres, Davos is billed to be the highest town in Europe. And funiculars, cable-cars and ski-lifts are ready to hoist you even higher, into six mountain areas for skiing in winter, and hiking and …
Not many cities have as tranquil a setting as Jönköping in southern Sweden. This place is on the shore of three different lakes, one of which is Vättern, the second largest lake in Sweden and the sixth by area in Europe. With sheets of water, woodland and picturesque old towns, the landscape has a sprinkling …
Capital of the Västerbotten County in northern Sweden, Umeå is by the Ume River, close to where it empties into the Gulf of Bothnia. Northern Sweden’s largest university is here, in a young culturally-vibrant city in pristine surroundings. The gulf to the east is sprinkled with islands, some like the Holmön and Norrbyskär archipelagos are …
Over three percent of the state of Alabama is made up of water. In fact, it is home to one of the longest navigational waterways in the country. The state is also made up of mountains, valleys, streams, rivers and lakes. There are over 100 lakes spread across Alabama, many of which are relaxing vacation …
In the Ruhr Valley, Essen is a name that used to be a byword for German industry and the Krupp family, now ThyssenKrupp. But if you show up expecting a post-Industrial cityscape you may be in for a shock. The tertiary sector has left Essen with modern towers and parks, while a UNESCO-status industrial facility …
A port city on the Sound, Helsingborg is on Sweden’s Lund Peninsula across the water from its Danish counterpart Helsingør. Denmark is almost close enough to touch and Helsingborg was controlled by the Danes up to the Treaty of Roskilde in the 17th century. Kärnan is a medieval castle tower, harking back to when the …