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Over the past five years, Albania has been discovered by travelers as that rare thing: a largely unexplored corner of Europe (one with some 265 miles of coastline). The small Balkan country sits just across the Adriatic and Ionian seas from Italy’s heel and a mere 45-minute ferry ride away from the Greek island of […]

HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. HuffPost x StackCommerceThis suitcase is a cheap alternative to Away luggage. No matter how organized you think you are, packing for a trip will prove otherwise. Unless you’re a packing genius who knows all of the tricks — like using packing cubes

On first look, Border Store’s menu seems fairly standard, if you discount the fact that there is almost nothing to eat this far into the wilderness, let alone lovingly cooked Thai classics. But Mr. Brown and Ms. Mana grow their own herbs. Vegetables are fresh and never frozen. Curries are made from scratch. Ms. Mana’s

Founded by Greeks around 734 B.C., the southeastern Sicilian city that Cicero called “the greatest and most beautiful of all Grecian cities” achieved a size and status in the ancient world that made it a rival of major powers like Athens and Carthage. Takeovers and makeovers by Romans, Byzantines, North Africans, Normans and others left

The Diving Girl was born in Portland, Ore., in 1920. In my pursuit of her ghost, I find myself eyeballing three contentious Canada geese on a floating swim dock in the Willamette River. On this overcast June afternoon, cottony clouds of varying thickness hang overhead, the sun and splashes of blue visible in the gaps

A Seaside Villa on the Northern Coast of Crete $1.3 MILLION (1.2 MILLION EUROS) This seven-bedroom, four-bathroom home is in Plaka, a fishing village on the northwestern coast of Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. The property, known as Villa Ioanna, sits on a sloping, 1.23-acre lot near several olive groves

Flying with kids is generally not an easy, breezy experience. But there are ways to alleviate the stress. We asked the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to share travel tips and hacks that have made long flights with kids more bearable. Naturally, many parents offered some funny joke responses like “Put your children on a different

“All these things have an effect on how people perceive a destination,” said Christopher Heywood, a spokesman for New York City’s tourism organization, NYC & Company. “Perception is everything.” Has gun violence had an effect? U.S. State Department advisories and warnings can have a powerful effect on travel. In the wake of violent events overseas,

The Disney parks might be a magical place to some people, but for others, the idea of taking a family vacation to Disney World or Disneyland make their heads spin. And as pretty much anyone who has trekked to either park can attest, the key to a successful trip that the whole family will enjoy

These aren’t the bombs airport security is looking for. The Transportation Security Administration has had a change of heart after telling travelers that they could not fly with soft drink bottles shaped like the thermal detonators featured in “Star Wars.” The novelty items are fine to bring along, it said, whether you’re traveling near or