Travel involves more than a ticket but cracking open a window in the mind to allow fresh insight, a widened perspective, and a pliable heart to find the light. It's the best possible way to become small: finding yourself in an ever bigger, more interesting world.

I’ve found such smallness in:

• Amalfi, Italy

• Argegno, Italy

• Asolo, Italy

• Bad Wurzach, Germany

• Bassano del Grappa, Italy

• Bellagio, Italy

• Berlin, Germany

• Brescia, Italy

• Brussels, Belgium

• Budapest, Hungary

• Cali, Colombia

• Camucia, Italy

• Cernobbio, Italy

• "Cinque Terre," Italy

• Cittadella, Italy

• Como, Italy

• Cortona, Italy

• Dublin, Ireland

• Dubrovnik, Croatia

• Edinburgh, Scotland

• El Valle de Anton, Panama

• Florence, Italy

• Fludir, Iceland

• Freising, Germany

• Genoa, Italy

• Hvar, Croatia

• Lake Bled, Slovenia

• Lake Garda, Italy

• Laglio, Italy

• Levanto, Italy

• Ljubljana, Slovenia

• London, England

• Malahide, Ireland

• Malcesine, Italy

• Marostica, Italy

• Mandello del Lario, Italy

• Medellin, Colombia

• Milan, Italy

• Mondsee, Austria

• Naples, Italy

• Olcio, Italy

• Padova, Italy

• Pakleni Islands, Croatia

• Panama City, Panama

• Paris, France

• Passau, Germany

• Perugia, Italy

• Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland

• Positano, Italy

• Punta Gorda, Belize

• Reykjavik, Iceland

• Rome, Italy

• Salerno, Italy

• Salzburg, Austria

• San Daniele, Italy

• San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Sorrento, Italy

• Split, Croatia

• Supetar, Croatia

• Torri del Benaco, Italy

• Trogir, Croatia

• Udine, Italy

• Vatican City

• Verona, Italy

• Venice, Italy

• Vienna, Austria

• Vik, Iceland

• Zürich, Switzerland