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A Greener Shade of Spain: Three Days in the Basque Country
Though it’s only five hours’ drive north of her home in Madrid, our friend, Rosa, had never been to Spain’s Basque Country, the “Euskadi” as it’s called in the Basque language. And for good reason: during the 1970s and 80s, when Rosa was growing up, the terrorist activities of the Basque separatist organization, Euskadi Ta
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Mauna Kea Magic
Big, fancy resort hotels are normally not my thing. There is a sanitized sameness to many of them, detached from the life and culture of the places where they are located, that leaves me cold. So when I encountered the sprawling, 252-room Mauna Kea Beach Hotel during my family’s first visit to Hawaii’s Big Island
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California
Shaking Things Up in Palm Springs
One of the best things about travel is the opportunity it provides to discover new things. Especially delicious new things. Our trip to Palm Springs over Thanksgiving week included such a discovery: Palm Springs’ iconic date shake. But at the time, I had no idea that date shakes were a thing let alone iconic. And if
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France
A Laissez Faire Approach to Wine Tasting in the Médoc
It was a hot night in late July as my husband, Matt, and I gathered for aperitifs with our friend, Caroline, and her parents at their two-hundred year-old, ivy covered house in St. Seurin de Cadourne. Across the road, the Gironde Estuary flowed north-west to the Atlantic, while millions of ruby-red grapes slowly ripened on