
Weekends with Yankee
Sailing on the tall ship Lynx; hot-air ballooning above Quechee, Vt.; The Lost Kitchen in Maine.

Sailing on the tall ship Lynx; hot-air ballooning above Quechee, Vt.; The Lost Kitchen in Maine.

Mayfair Farm in New Hampshire; the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H.; Red Bee Honey.

Sailing in Newport, R.I.; the coastal town of Westerly, R.I.; whirlpool; New England general store.

Whitewater rafting on the Kennebec River; Maine puffins with researcher Stephen Kress.

Tanglewood Music Festival; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.

Rick Steves celebrates the top 10 festivals in Europe, including the Carnival in Venice, Italy.

Rick Steves offers practical advice on how to have a fun and affordable trip to Europe.

Rick Steves offers practical advice on how to have a fun and affordable trip to Europe.

Rick Steves offers practical advice on how to have a fun and affordable trip to Europe.

Rick Steves offers practical advice on how to have a fun and affordable trip to Europe.

Italy: Venice's art treasures and lagoon; glass in Murano; lace in Burano; Torcello.

Monuments of Venice, Italy; cruising the Grand Canal; masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance.

Hiking through the Cumbria Lake District; cricket; hiking Hadrian's Wall; Durham Cathedral.

Royal tombs in Westminster Abbey; British Library; Churchill's secret World War II headquarters.

Cruising the River Seine; Napoleon's tomb; Louvre; shopping in Paris; Bastille Day celebration.

Pisa y Lucca; a tipsy tower; Puccini.

Michelangelo's "David"; Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"; Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise."

The Trastevere district's historic Jewish Ghetto; churches.

Bernini statues; St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; Roman dinner; romantic nightspots.

Rome's Colosseum and Pantheon; bike riding along the Appian Way; Roman engineering.