Nashville is a lot of fun, and also a lot. After two nights of honky-tonks on Broadway, a quiet day out of town starts to sound very appealing. Luckily, Middle Tennessee is full of easy escapes: pretty small towns, rolling farmland, a famous whiskey distillery, waterfalls and the longest cave system in the world. Here
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San Francisco is expensive. Hotels are pricey, dinners add up fast and a cable car ride costs more than you’d guess. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the best things in the city are walks, views, parks and neighborhoods, and most of them cost little or nothing. Here are seven affordable things
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Charleston is one of those cities that looks exactly like its photos. Pastel houses, church steeples, gas lanterns, cobblestones. It’s small, it’s charming and it’s very easy to love. It’s also easy to get wrong. People turn up in July without a dinner reservation, drive in circles looking for parking or pick a plantation tour
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San Diego has a reputation as the easiest city in California. The weather’s mild, the beaches are close and everyone seems to be wearing flip-flops. Most of that’s true. But a few things catch first-timers off guard, from grey June mornings to a parking fine you didn’t see coming. Here are eight things to know
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Seattle might be the easiest big city in America to visit alone. People keep to themselves (sometimes a little too much), the coffee shops are built for one person and a laptop, and the best sights are walks, ferries and viewpoints that don’t need a companion. It’s also compact enough to get around without a
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New Orleans is a great city for couples, and not only because the drinks come in to-go cups. It’s slow, it’s warm, it’s full of music, and almost every street looks like it was designed for holding hands on. It also rewards a plan. Wander without one and you’ll end up on Bourbon Street at
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South Beach is fun for a day. The Art Deco hotels are gorgeous, the beach is famous and the people-watching is world class. But if that’s all you see, you’ve missed most of Miami. The city is huge and wildly varied, with Cuban neighborhoods, an Italian-style palace, a pool carved out of a quarry and
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Most visitors to Chicago never leave the Loop and the Magnificent Mile. That’s a shame, because the real city is out in its neighborhoods. Chicago has 77 official community areas, and each one has its own food, its own bars and its own very strong opinions. The ‘L’ train makes it easy to hop between
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Here’s my honest advice for San Francisco: don’t rent a car. The hills are steep, parking is scarce and expensive, and car break-ins are a well-known problem. You’ll spend more time hunting for a space than enjoying the city. The good news is that San Francisco is small, about seven miles across, and it’s one
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Los Angeles has a reputation for being one giant traffic jam with no center. That’s partly fair. The trick is to stop thinking of LA as one city and treat it like a string of small towns, each with its own personality. Pick one or two neighborhoods a day, park once (or take the Metro)
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