tourism – Transient Local

Two-Day Wander: Toulouse, Niaux Caves, and Carcassonne

The Languedoc-Roussillon/Midi-Pyrénées region is a land of abandoned hilltop castles, distant snowy mountains, and glittery blue coasts

Like many who fly into Split or pick up one of the cross-country buses there, I might never have seen it in daylight if I hadn’t slowed down.

There are lots of ways to take advantage of your resident expatriate status during the TAPIF

The heart and essence of France is not Paris, it’s the cultivated countryside.

There is a choice of mindset at travel moments like this that divides checklist tourist from true traveler.

The Cinque Terre secret is REALLY out.

Highlights from four days in Barcelona

Lyon is full of lovely little shops run by talented designers and artists hoping to sell their unique wares at a fair price

Highlights from a day in Chambery, France.

Hundreds of covered alleyways called traboules burrow through Lyon’s older neighborhoods and harbor relics from across the centuries.