With the summer tourist swarms behind, fall and winter are actually two of the best times to visit Europe (Oktoberfest aside). Flights are cheap and tours will be half-dead, which makes it a perfec...

An ancient land of lakes, mountains and fiercely independent people, Macedonia has seen the world’s greatest empires come and go over its turbulent 2,500-year history. Like where would Mediterranea...

Since emerging from the shadow of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the Balkans -- the title given to southeastern Europe, and named for the Balkan Mountain chain that stretches across Bulgaria and Serbia -...