Category: Travel

Why Booking Travel on Your Phone Is a Bad Idea

Since the first iPhone launched 15 years ago, consumer shopping habits have slowly but relentlessly shifted toward mobile devices. According to a survey of 3,250 U.S. consumers from Pymnts.com, a website dedicated to analyzing the role of payments in new tech, the majority of travel service purchases (51.4 percent) were made on a mobile device…


Munich: A City of Modern and Traditional Wonder

Munich seamlessly blends both the urban flair of a vibrant metropolis and the traditional charm of an outlying town. Situated on the Isar river to the north of the Bavarian Alps, Munich is the capital of Bavaria and the third-largest city in Germany. What started out as a market town in the 12th century has…


Garmisch-Partenkirchen: A Natural Treasure

On our quest to explore the best of the Alps we visited Garmisch-Partenkirchen, an appealing resort town nestled in the Bavarian Alps. Interestingly, this town is comprised of two separate side-by-side villages that united in 1935 to host the Winter Olympics. World-renowned for its alpine hiking, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is home to Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze….


Bible Town

Join best friends Jimmy, Sarah, and Tammy as they travel to one of the most incredible places on earth: Bible Town—where all the inhabitants tell inspirational Bible stories. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films:…


City of Creativity: Finding Makers in Prague

It seemed like a secret—and in some ways, I guess, it was. Rolling over the Vltava River in his little car, Stepan Rusnak expertly maneuvers through the tight corners and cobblestones of the Lesser Town, squeezing the small black hatchback into a tiny parking space. We walked a block to the John Lennon Wall. Sitting…


Walking the Wall in Berlin

It was hard to picture what this place looked like just three decades ago. Now, it’s vibrant and teeming with tourists streaming up and down the sidewalks, from museum to museum and shop to shop. On this sunny afternoon, I saw few reminders of what once divided this area. Nobody would think twice about crossing…


More Than the Score: One Night in Barcelona

As I got closer and closer to the stadium, the blue and garnet builds. First on the platform, then on the subway itself, the team spirit rises with each stop on the L-5 as more and more fans clad in team colors boarded for the short journey west on the blue cross-town line. Disembarking at…


Finding Treasure in Sicily: Palermo

For many years, Palermo was known for one thing—and it wasn’t good: being headquarters for the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. Situated on the northwest coast of Sicily, it was a place gripped with fear, where shootings, raw and brutal, were followed in turn by revenge killings by rivals. The nadir came in 1992, when…


Taking the Kids: And Honoring Veterans. 10 Places to Visit

The young woman was standing at the grave of the grandfather she had never met. We were in France at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial that overlooks Omaha Beach, where her grandfather – just 29 when he died, leaving behind a wife and two young children – is buried alongside thousands of young men who died…


Youthful yet Historic Würzburg

Surrounded by vineyards and filled with atmospheric wine gardens, small, tourist-friendly Würzburg (just 70 minutes by train from Frankfurt) is easy to navigate by foot or streetcar. Today, one in five of its 130,000 residents are students – making the town feel young and very alive. Standing on Würzburg’s venerable bridge – the second-oldest in…