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New Years in Vienna: The luxurious 9-day rail trip through Central Europe
New Years in Vienna: The Golden EagleDanube Express. A tour unlike any other. Having loved trains of all sorts all our lives, this 9-day tour of the Central Europe capitals and countryside, was like some surreal dream carved from the early 20th century. While there are several in-depth postings on the Destinations page, here we…
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The Golden Eagle Express private train. Vienna, New Years, and a tour unlike any other.
A classic A 7-day trip on a private train; the epitome of luxurious travel, civilized company, and of another era. Except you can have it now. New Year’s in Vienna: The Golden EagleDanube Express. A tour unlike any other. Unique is a poor choice of words — classic is overused but perhaps better because the…
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Knossos, the 3900 year-old labyrinth of ancient legend.(No Minotaur sightings.)
The Palace of Knossos, on the Mediterranean isle of Crete, presents a daunting task that broaches mere tourism: how does one really take it all in? As a site of such massive size and complexity, ruined earthquakes, tidal waves, toppled empires…clouding the eyes of history with the dust of legend of Midas and the Minotaur,…
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24 hours in Kaikoura, New Zealand.
On the road for 24 hours in Kaikoura. Where to stay, eat, hike. What a seaside delight! As you wend down the SH1 highway that runs inland, you first pass through the wine plains of Blenheim, which then opens up to hug the West Coast of the South Island to Kaikoura; the views of ocean…
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Rocca Calascio: Where many movies were made…and the armies march across the plains
When it comes to driving, the Gran Sasso mountains are not for the faint-of-heart. Even the GPS couldn’t handle the remote roads leading in and out of tiny villages clinging like lichen to steep cliffs. Nonetheless, we maneuvered tiny roads the GPS could not find, through villages where you wondered how they survived, to the…
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Ephesus, Turkey…the great library at sunset – ghosts of knowledge and luxury.
Of all the Roman ruins, Ephesus may be one of the greatest. What is unusual is that it is a coastal summer resort, somewhat intact, and bears all the marks of luxury and civilization the Romans had created; there are long rows of columns, passages through the town, that pass by smaller structures that were…
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Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, stunning and hypnotic
I took my love there, but we never went in — though I had visited several times with my son over the years when we went to SF. The interior is for kids but appeals to the kid in all adults. We did not go in because the light was so perfect and the…
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