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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30 Things I Didn’t Do Until I Turned 30
1:00 01/01/1970
Yesterday I turned 31. I spent a wonderful day with my loved ones in Riga. It was a day filled with plenty of my favorite things: photographing a World Heritage Site, wine, cheese, getting recognized...
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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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The best ways to experience the white water of the Southern French Alps
1:00 01/01/1970
  The Southern French Alps have the best play spots in the Alps for experienced white water kayakers with big water, technical descents and roller coaster rapids on famous rivers like the Durance...
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Beauty in the Ruins of Tintern Abbey
1:00 01/01/1970
Tintern Abbey is one of most beautiful and evocative sights in all of Britain. And seeing a wedding ceremony inside was icing on the cake. In this clip the harpist strums while the pastor worries...
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Details Paint a Bigger Picture of a Little Cotswold Church
1:00 01/01/1970
Buried in the Cotswold region of west England is the pristine village of Stanton, with what appears to be just another little medieval church. But, by knowing what to look at, you’ll see deeper....
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Chipping Campden Silversmiths Still Hammering Out a Living
1:00 01/01/1970
England’s Cotswolds hide many subtle dimensions of the local culture. A hundred years ago, the delightful village of Chipping Campden hosted the Arts and Crafts Movement (refugees from the...
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The 4 bears of Canada and how best to see them
1:00 01/01/1970
Luxury comes in many forms; sometimes it is in 1000 thread count bed sheets, sometimes in the magic of seeing a bear in his natural habitat. Three species of bear call Canada home; the polar bear,...
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