Without fail, I return from any long journey singing the praises of small towns — the ones I had never heard of until pre-trip research uncovered them. Last summer, on an epic adventure that included ...

Thanks to the purified water that trickles down from the nearby Alps, it is one of Europe's most beautiful translucent lakes. The lake is the third largest lake in France, measuring over nine miles ...

Many Americans have heard the French cities of Lyon and Chamonix. Fewer know of Annecy, a lakeshore city that is situated—as the crow flies—about midway between those other two locales. With a ...