What do Bill Gates, Hillary and Chelsea, Martina Navratilova and Prince Charles have in common? They’ve all taken an Abercrombie and Kent safari in Tanzania. I figured that’s a pretty good recommendation. As little as five years ago, some Americans …
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Mary King’s Close, Edinburgh, Scotland: 400 Years of History, Previously Buried –- Literally — Brought Alive by Fyllis Hockman
The year is 1645. The most virulent strain of the Bubonic Plague has immobilized Edinburgh, Scotland, claiming the lives of more than half the city’s population. The area hardest hit: Mary King’s Close on High Street, a busy thoroughfare and …
Luxembourg – An Entire Country in Miniature by Mike Pickup
Just 51 miles long and 35 miles wide, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in the world, yet it has all the ingredients of a large country, from modern euro-city to wooded countryside. Confusingly Luxembourg …
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England’s Lake District: Where Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter and Literary History Converge by Fyllis Hockman
What do William Wordsworth, William Yeats and Jemima Puddle-Duck have in common? Well, they all lived in and around the fairy-tale villages of England’s Lake District, but only one of them actually is a fairy tale. And possibly the most …
Gascon Gastronomy: Every Writer’s Dream by John M.Edwards
Part II It is every writer’s dream to land a housesitting job in France. I’d have three months to start (and abort) a novel while enjoying the medieval landscape. But how did my galpal and I land the job? We …
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Gascon Gastronomy: The Farmer’s Armagnac by John M.Edwards
Where Is The Gers? Taking a back road into Auch, France (population: 22,000), the remote ersatz capital of the Gers, in a rented Renault time machine, two hired housesitters pinched themselves. Auch! As the 15th-century Cathedral de Sainte Marie and …
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Meddling with Medieval Mysteries: Hiking Through History in Southern France by Fyllis Hockman
Climbing up the wide circular stone staircase to our hotel room in the Chateau des Ducs de Joyeuse on the first night, I knew this would be a very different trip. I could just as easily be accessing a medieval …
