Let’s jet off to Europe, get our portraits done, and return to our loved ones with tales of our cultural adventures and wild parties! We’re comparing the British gap year known as the Grand Tour and the modern Instagram onslaught that is Euro Summer.

For hundreds of years, young people have ventured to Europe in search of culture, knowledge, and stories to bring home about getting way too high in Amsterdam. How has the tradition evolved? What does it mean for locals in European tourism hotspots?

Plus: dispatches from Wisconsin and the Renaissance fair, the white shirt as an enemy of the busty woman, and when your evil gallbladder turns you into someone you don’t even like.