Europe
Europe may finally be admitting Americans had a point.For decades, much of the continent treated air conditioning as an unnecessary luxury — something for hotels, shopping malls, and the occasional trip abroad.Americans, meanwhile, have spent years looking across the Atlantic wondering why Europeans would rather sweat through a heat wave…
Last year, like many other Australians, I looked to escape our winter by planning a five-week trip to Europe during their summer.For months, I obsessed over researching destinations, reading articles online, and perusing TikTok for the perfect places to visit. Of course, there were some spots I knew I had…
A few years ago, I decided to take my three kids to Paris on a summer trip. When I started planning our itinerary, I reviewed a bunch of “best things to do in Paris with kids” lists and consulted with other parents who’d visited with their families.Since this was my…
When I planned my two-week backpacking trip through six European cities, the last thing I expected was to be blown away by the suburbs.In October 2022, I traveled to Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Milan, and Zurich. In most of these destinations, I booked accommodations within city limits, from an airstream…
My wife and I had just arrived in Amsterdam, the first stop on our three-week European trip with about 10 destinations.As we stepped off the train, we prepared to bask in the “we made it halfway across the world from Reno” feeling as we embarked on a peaceful canalside walk to our hotel.Instead,…
The Russian threat is real, and it’s time for European defense companies to start copying Ukraine and break up production across multiple sites, a Ukrainian official and multiple defense firms told Business Insider.Russia’s drone and missile attacks are so widespread that weapons companies working in Ukraine typically can’t afford to…
Last summer, I planned what I thought would be an epic adventure. An amazing trip with my husband and four kids for my 50th birthday. My sister and her family decided to come too, and then my brother and my mom.We planned to start in Spain, travel up through France,…
In 2007, my husband’s wanderlust led him from his hometown of Prague to Manila, where he and I met.When we started dating, he reassured me that he’d never tire of living in my country, but that changed a year later, when we took a trip to Europe together.We had a…
Mistral AI’s first summit felt less like a startup conference and more like a campaign rally for Europe’s AI ambitions.The French AI startup, founded just three years ago, packed Paris’s Le Carrousel du Louvre — the event space beneath the Louvre’s famous glass pyramid — on Thursday with executives from…
