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In the late 18th century, Portofino might have been the ideal "pirate cove" from The Count of Monte Cristo , where buccaneer Luigi...

Retiring from my career position at Eugene Water & Electric Board in late 2008, my immediate inclination was to travel to Europe -- Ital...

In about a dozen trips to Europe or Asia since 2009, we've never rented a car: too expensive and frankly, too much trouble. Except for a...

In planning our European junket, we chose two destinations on either side of the Alps as beginning and end points: Bavaria and the Italian R...

After a week in Munich, we initiated preparations for the next leg of our journey to Bolzano on July 29. Having already purchased our train ...

Tooling around the city center of Munich is quite the rush. The city's core, closed to motorized vehicles, pulses with vibrancy and pros...

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was one of the great anomalies of European royalty in the late 19th century. Ascending the throne at the tender ag...