Music lovers find special delights in Austria. In Salzburg at my favorite hotel, I lie in bed a hundred meters from Mozart’s dad. He’s just outside my window in the graveyard of the St. Sebastian ...

Rick Steves, the American travel writer, guide book author and longtime PBS host, revealed Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In a lengthy statement posted to social media, ...

One of Europe’s mightiest castles, this fortress dominates Salzburg’s skyline South of Prague but a world away, Trebon offers a glimpse of traditional Eastern Europe While many things are changing in ...

If you could take a road trip with your younger self, how well do you think the two of you would get along? Would you have an admiration for each other? Would you even recognize each other? Rick ...

The writer and PBS host, 69, who underwent surgery in October, says he's approaching cancer like a new adventure, with a "traveler's mindset" Matt Hulbert; Courtesy Rick Steves Travel writer and host ...

Dining out in Europe is exciting and a little intimidating. Avoid falling into tourist traps with this Rick Steves-approved trick for reading restaurant signs.

Rick Steves, perhaps America’s most accomplished European tourist, was looking for a cheap but charming steak place in the ancient Tuscan town of Montepulciano last month. Following a local lead, he ...

Whether you first encountered Rick Steves via his popular line of guidebooks or his genial series of PBS travel shows, you probably already recognize him as the Northwest’s preeminent authority on ...