Say the word focaccia and most people picture one of two things: the thick, fluffy, dimpled bread of Genoa, golden with olive oil, or something close to a pizza base. There is a third focaccia, though, and it is so unlike the others that meeting it for the first time can be genuinely startling. It …

Ryanair still expects you to check in online before you reach the airport. Miss that window, and the airline can charge an airport check-in fee per passenger per sector. On Ryanair’s current fee table, that fee is €55, except for departures from Spain where it is €30, and for Austria where it is €40. That …

An American moves to Europe, loads the European washing machine for the very first time, presses start, and watches in growing alarm as the display announces that the wash will take two hours and forty minutes. Back home in the States, a full load of laundry was reliably done in thirty or forty minutes. Something, …

When people imagine European cuisine, dishes like Spanish paella or Italian pasta immediately come to mind. While these classics have earned their global fame, they’re only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Europe’s culinary treasures. Across the continent, countless regional specialties remain undiscovered by outsiders, yet they’ve been beloved by locals for …

Spain is running one of the most closely watched experiments in European housing policy, and it is running it twice, in two directions at once. In Catalonia, the regional government has embraced rent control, capping what landlords can charge across most of the region in a bid to tame runaway prices. In Madrid, the regional …

Somewhere in America right now, a set of grandparents is watching their adult children struggle under a bill that would have been unimaginable in their own young-parent years. It is not the mortgage or the car. It is daycare, the cost of having someone look after a small child while both parents work, and in …

For affluent Americans, Europe has quietly become the place to own a second home. The trend is not loud or flashy, but it is unmistakable in the reports coming out of international real estate brokerages and property registries, which show a rising tide of well-off American buyers, professionals, executives and the comfortably retired, snapping up …

You sit down, the table fills with small plates, and twenty quiet minutes later you stand up steady, focused, and not thinking about snacks. In Istanbul, breakfast is not a bar you unwrap in the car. It is a spread. Plates of tomatoes and cucumbers glisten with olive oil. Briny olives sit beside salty cheeses. …

In Finland, the sauna is a fixture of ordinary life, something many people do several times a week from childhood onward. So when Finnish researchers set out to follow thousands of middle-aged men for two decades, they were able to ask a question few other countries could: does the frequency of sauna bathing have any …

You arrive in Spain, you settle into a home or a hotel with a double bed, and you notice something strange about the pillows. Or rather, about the pillow, singular, because instead of the two separate pillows you expected, one for each person, there is a single enormous one stretching the entire width of the …

We will write about Portuguese food with the best 40 Portuguese dishes and traditional food in Portugal to try. Portuguese cuisine and the food in Portugal is good! There are also some dishes that are authentic Portuguese traditional food and drinks to try! Portuguese cuisine favors robust dishes prepared with meat, seafood, lentils, and vegetables. It’s a …

Let’s just get some things straight. No European country is handing Americans a permanent, visa-free, live-here-forever situation just because you have a U.S. passport. What you can get, in a few non-Schengen countries, is a very long visa-free stay and an easy way to keep spending time in Europe without burning your Schengen 90/180 allowance. …