In this episode of Rick Steves’ Europe, we'll island-hop through the Aegean, sampling three classic Greek getaways — Santorini, Mykonos, and Rhodes — and basking in th | Rick Steves' Europe

This time we're exploring the far west of Ireland. Starting on the remote Aran Islands, we cruise to Galway, hike the rugged Burren, and marvel at the Cliffs of Moher before venturing to Dingle and finishing on Great Blasket Island. | Rick Steves' Europe

Iceland’s unofficial mascot is the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)—that adorably stout, tuxedo-clad seabird with a too-big orange beak and beady black eyes. Some 10 million puffins summer in Iceland—the largest population of any country on earth. They usually arrive in Iceland in April/May, then take off again at summer’s end—making the window for seeing them quite short. The biggest puffin populations (about one million) are in the Westman Islands; along the South Coast (particularly aroun