The top 3 spa retreats in the Alps
1:00 01/01/1970
When you think about it, water, the giver of life, is the skiers best friend, in many ways. When its frozen or in snow form it gives joy to millions of them. After a day on the mountain many of...
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Wrapping Up One Hundred Days in Europe
1:00 01/01/1970
My summer trip is finished. I’m flying home. And to wrap up my Hundred Days of Europe blog, I threw a bunch of final images against the wall, and these are the ones that stuck. In Europe, brides...
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Doc Martin Fans Trample “Portwenn”
1:00 01/01/1970
The British comedy series Doc Martin is a huge hit with PBS viewers. Being in Cornwall, I had to drop by the rugged little fishing port where it’s filmed. The village of Portwenn in Doc Martin is...
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Crowds in Cornwall? What Crowds?
1:00 01/01/1970
Cornwall can be mobbed with tourists — mostly English families with their dogs and ice cream cones visiting all the predictable corners. St. Ives, Port Isaac, and Mousehole are quaint, Tintagel is...
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Cornwall Highlights
1:00 01/01/1970
I’ve been traveling for nearly a week in southwest England and have not seen an American. There are plenty of tourists — Europeans and Brits — but not a Yank in sight. This is Cornwall, where...
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I Have a Romantic Thing About Pilchards
1:00 01/01/1970
Pilchards are big, oily sardines. Their oil once lit the lamps of Victorian London. And, packs of salted pilchards kept the people of Cornwall alive through harsh winters in an age when putting food...
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Cornwall’s Ancient Hedgerows
1:00 01/01/1970
An icon of Cornwall — rightly nicknamed “The Garden of England” — is its fearsome hedgerows. For a thousand years, the hardy Cornish people have been picking the rocks off their rugged fields...
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Tropical England
1:00 01/01/1970
While updating my Rick Steves England guidebook, I’ve endured some pretty dreary weather. So dropping into the Eden Project in Cornwall was a delightful chance to enjoy the tropics in England, and...
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4 things to do in Nuremberg’s Old Town
1:00 01/01/1970
Germanys medieval Bavarian town of Nuremberg is home to the world famous Christkindlemarkt, Renaissance genius Albrect Dürer, and one of the most important medieval castles in Euorope all of...
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High Art Hits the Streets – Series by Alexey Kondakov
1:00 01/01/1970
Here’s something you won’t see very often! The Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov had the fun idea to merge classic, historical figures from paintings into our everyday life. So instead of seeing...
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