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With 130 expert itineraries from The New York Times' popular 36 Hours column, this updated and revised third edition of the best-selling 36 Hours Europe reveals the continent's brightest gems and best-kept secrets, including 20 new stories.

Our TLC / BD trip* continued, and the next stop on the whirlwind itinerary was Seville in Spain. Beautiful, beautiful Sevilla (as it is known by locals). Ah, what a city! Small but not cramped (I noticed even in Barcelona that the Spaniards design their cities to be quite spacious so yay for Spain), and oh so colourful! The hotels, the common areas, the little dangling bunting running across the bridges – everywhere you look there’s bright colours luring you in, shining bright with a constant sunny disposition, leaving you feeling joyful and de-stressed. Who could ask for more? We checked in to one of the fanciest and adorned hotels we have ever seen – turns out it was designed...

Ah, Barcelona. Where do I even begin?! What a truly sensational town (and definitely in our top 5 favorite cities). Let me tell you why…   Reason #1 – It’s the most spacious European city we’ve ever visited   The wide roads, the open parks, the beach, the nearby mountains – although a hugely populated city (Spain’s second largest) you don’t feel the congestion at all. I’m not sure if it was the way the original town was planned, or how the man-made structures were interweaved between the beautiful outdoor scenery, but even walking through the busy tourist-infested alleys, you feel like you have your own space, and enough of it to breathe and take it all in (unlike many...

As originally seen on HuffingtonPost.com Hiding deep in the Dachstein mountains, not too far from Salzburg, is a small town that has the charm of something out of a fairytale. Picture a quaint town, surrounded by towering mountains, sitting beside a glasslike lake; the only thing you hear are trickles of ice-cold water running from a small stream into the deep blue body of water. As you look across the lake, the scene is broken up only by the sight of majestic white swans catching the first light. Could this be the most perfect place on Earth? There must have been fairytales born from this spot. If not, we might just have to write one. The town of Hallstatt is...

We recently had the pleasure of playing host in a foreign land. ‘Foreign’ because we technically have only been in Salzburg for several weeks, (even though we’re already familiar with some of the top local spots and secret alleyway gems), and ‘playing host’ because our friend Ant hopped on a flight from London, and joined us for a week to see what all our fuss has been about. Hope you had fun Ant! Salzburg can (arguably) be called Austria’s prettiest city. To our surprise, the old-fashioned architecture, and baroque cobbled streets haven’t been hummed out with the modern bustle of tourists, as opposed to our impression of Vienna. Sure, there’s tons of tour guides roaming the Hohensalzburg Fortress with crowds in tow, and the...
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