Our next Featured Tour Director is Daniel Muthee: Here in Kenya, you’re never far from animals you won’t find anywhere else. In the past, travelers hunted our animals with rifl es. Today, they use cameras. I prefer it that way because when I’m not leading tours, I’m usually taking photographs of my beautiful country. In [...]

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Home to the magnificent Alcázar, the Gothic Cathedral of St. Mary and the Plaza de Espana, Seville is a must visit on any vacation to Spain. Enjoying the scents of the fragrant orange blossoms lining the streets, sampling tapas in the afternoon or taking in a traditional Flamenco performance could keep anyone busy for hours. [...]

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In parts of Catalonia and Andalucia, the siesta is still an integral part of daily life. Not so in cosmopolitan Madrid. The comparison is inexact, but Madrid is to Spain as New York City is to America: fast-paced, glamorous and somehow bigger than the pictures make it seem. There are a thousand ways to pass [...]

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Go Ahead Customer Relations Associate, Rebecca Boudreau, traveled to Italy for the first time this year on our Grand Tour of Italy, and she returned with a tip on blending in with the locals: “Everyone thought I was Italian. All the shop owners addressed me in Italian, and then I’d have to say, ‘No, no, [...]

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Those who’ve read the brooding, evocative novels of Carlos Ruiz Zafón might imagine Barcelona as a city with a secret, a place where a grand Faustian drama plays out under the noses of an unwitting populace. Those who’ve actually been to Barcelona…might agree with Zafón! While we can’t confirm any sightings of idealistic young writers, [...]

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