Are you traveling to Bruges in Belgium? The first place I take a visitor from out of town is to Bruges city center. The historic centre of Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage site. At the end of a busy day, I go to the city parks to relax and watch people. Hoping to escape […]
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Best Things to See and Do in Amsterdam The first place I take a visitor from out of town is to the Anne Frank House. When I crave Dutch cuisine, I turn to “Patat met majonaise” (French Fries with mayo) , “broodje kroket” with mustard (meat-croquette); or Indonesian Rijsttafel! The staple Dutch meal is meat,
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Are you visiting Brussels for the first time? Perhaps my overview of this grand destination will help make your travels easier. There are so many things to see and do in Brussels, Belgium. The first place I take a visitor from out of town is to the Grand Place. When I crave Brussels cuisine, I
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No one snoozed in the pews when visiting Santiago City’s church service. “It was theatrical,” marveled Lafayette’s Marcia Linn. “There were four monks harnessed in a basket that allowed them to work a pulley system to propel an incense burner filled with hot coals fifty feet into the air. Every day we saw hundreds of
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Traveling with multi-generations THE TRAVELERS: Lafayette, California mom and consultant Nancy Brown, age 40-plus; and her mother, Janet Mooers, former Moraga resident and international traveler, age 80-plus. THE TREK IN A SEC: This mother-daughter duo was Barcelona-bound. Janet Mooers, a recent widow, wanted to see a few more sights before she retired her passport. Daughter
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San Sebastian While “the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain” according to Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in the 1964 film “My Fair Lady,” the rain in Spain that our tour group encountered fell mainly in the resort town of San Sebastian. As Hemingway reflected in “The Sun Also Rises”: “The trees seem
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