Europe Summary

Europe: Money-Saving Trips - Following these tips can leave you with some extra green left in your pocket when you get home.

The Cure Aquatic - Being the European education of an American spa lover, in which Dana Dickey surrenders to the therapies of water—from the subterranean to the Mediterranean. Who says old Europe has nothing to teach us?

It Takes a Village - Sprinkled throughout Europe are fairy-tale hamlets that offer a taste of the Continent as it used to be—places where simple pleasures and centuries-old rhythms seem to slow the world's very rotation, and where even the stillness speaks volumes. "Guidebooks privilege cities and sites, but the history—not to mention the romance—is often far more potent in villages," writes Cristina Nehring, who took her thesis on the road last summer to three countries: France, Greece, and Italy. There, she discovered entire cultures writ small—in the scent of lavender, a taste of black truffle, and the Hellenic art of doing absolutely nothing.