Articles by Susan Spano

Iknow how to get to paradise – in this life, anyway. Read more

When I set out to visit the smallest countries in Europe, I put Luxembourg at the top of the list. Read more

If you can identify the five smallest countries in Continental Europe you get a gold star. Read more

Is it any coincidence that some of the smallest countries in the world are also the world’s best tax havens? Read more

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Read more

Rain pelted the windshield as I drove up the Vals Valley. Read more

One wet morning in August (though I gather that it’s almost always wet in Scotland), I went walking in the Tweed River Valley near the hamlet of Innerleithen. Read more

When Pope Benedict XVI visits this small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees next weekend, he will follow in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who have come before him. Read more

Golf has been king at Gleneagles Hotel since the magisterial five-star Scottish resort-hotel near the Perthshire town of Crieff opened in 1924. Read more