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Shopping in the Medina – The artisans and workshops – Fes

Enter the gates of the Fes Medina, and you step back in time to a place where artisans still create handicrafts as they did centuries ago. Though a rise in tourism is inspiring more knock-offs and cheap copies, you'll find…

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COPENHAGEN and HELSINKI

Copenhagen's iconic Tivoli Gardens are more than just beautiful gardens. They are an amusement park, and boast a gourmet market-hall. Spires, canals, adorned bridges, and regal architectural structures are the hallmark of Copenhagen. A city cruise or a walk along…

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ICELAND

A glass of wine and a gourmet meal at The Lava restaurant of the Blue Lagoon. The most relaxing way to unwind and begin our trip. A half-day in the silky, steaming, therapeutic ice-blue waters of the Blue Lagoon. I've…

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The Inca Trail – Peru

We rush through our days, our weeks, our lives, to get 'there,' wherever 'there' is, to reach a specific destination or goal. Yet looking back, it seems that it's often the journey that got us 'there,' that is often more…

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The Route From Hue To Hoi-An

We bade farewell to Hue: the iconic Imperial Palace; the Perfume River and the tranquility and pampering of the Pilgrimage Village Resort. It was a crisp November day. The narrow tree lined streets of Hue were aglow in the early…

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From Santa Fe to Taos – New Mexico

On a cloudy Sunday morning, we drove out of Santa Fe heading North on route 285/84. Destination: Breakfast at the Tesuque Village Market. Tesuque is just a twenty minute drive from Santa Fe but feels a world apart. It has…

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