A stay at the Hotel de la Ville. It works! My wife, Kerry, and I each tossed a coin over our left shoulder into the famed Trevi Fountain in Rome when we were there in 2014. Myth has it, if you do so, you are guaranteed to return to The Eternal City to huck yet another coin into the water of the ornate Trevi. Be it magic, fate, self-fulfilling proph...

The fastest-growing sport in North America is a hit on a cruise ship Mike and Marga Kidd wipe the floor with us. Or, more precisely, they wipe the pickleball court with my wife, Kerry, and I, giving us an 11-2 drubbing. We're so unevenly matched that Kerry and I cheered each of the two points we scored as if we won the world championship. You see, ...

This is the most envy-worthy way to see the Portuguese capital Like a World War II machine gunner, I hunker down in the sidecar of the motorcycle. You see, during the war in Europe, the Americans retrofitted motorcycle sidecars with machine guns so the soldier passenger could exchange fire with the enemy. Motorcycle sidecars were also used in the w...

A multi-generational trip to Scotland hits all the highlights. Swing. Thwack! And my mom's first tee shot at the Devenick course at the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland gets nice air and distance to land – plonk – on the green 10 metres from the hole. A two putt in and my mom, Anne MacNaull, is on par. Me, my son, Alex, and my dad, Bob...

We step onto the cliff top outcropping of rock and let the blue sky and lake vista envelope us. "This viewpoint doesn't even have a name," says guide Diana Blinkert of Visit Essen. "I just call it The Rock. We're so lucky to have found it off this little side path off the BaldeneySteig." This type of epiphany comes early – and often – on the Balden...

"Vamonos, amigos," quips Karina Rios Radilla with a wave of her hand and a snap of her head. Our guide from Juan More Taco Tours is giving us the Spanish command of 'let's go, friends' because we're falling behind in this six-stop, three-hour, lunch-time culinary adventure. That's right, so many tacos and so little time. Karina's admonishment comes...