Forget Downton Abbey, Blenheim Palace is #1
1:00 01/01/1970
I nearly skipped Blenheim Palace this year, thinking that on a gorgeous Sunday in July this palace near Oxford would be a mob scene. It was nearly empty. In fact, I booked a special tour of the...
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Revisiting One of the Greatest Cities on Earth
1:00 01/01/1970
Spending a few days in London updating my guidebook, it was fun to reconnect with one of the greatest cities on earth. The many massive new buildings seem to have been given permits on the condition...
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10 things to enjoy in Maine
1:00 01/01/1970
As I rapidly discovered when planning 10 days in Maine, this part of America is enormous and trying to visit it all (or even more than a small corner) in 10 days isn’t possible. Instead we picked...
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A Walk Through Culture & Food of Sofia
1:00 01/01/1970
To learn about the city we took a Food Tasting and Cultural Walking Tour on our first day in Sofia--which proved to be the perfect introduction. We set out to spend three hours sampling Bulgarian...
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The perfect “girl’s day” in Milan
1:00 01/01/1970
Milan gets a bad rap. It’s often called industrial, grey and unwelcoming. I prefer to think of it as a mini New York with prettier clothes, properly made coffee, less greasy pizza and better...
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Grand Tour of My London Hotel Room
1:00 01/01/1970
One of my favorite moments in my travels is that little eddy between modules of a trip. For me, each two-month trip has segments. Today, the film crew is flying home from Germany, and I’m settling...
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Rothenburg as a Stage Set
1:00 01/01/1970
We spent 12 days scrambling to film our Reformation special. And the last stop was the historic German town of Rothenburg. If the town’s good enough to use as a location for “Pinocchio,”...
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24 luxury hours in Tokyo
1:00 01/01/1970
You’ve just landed in the surprising, thrilling and ever-changing city of Tokyo. Every single day here is a surprise; because this fast-paced capital just never stops moving. But you have a dilemma;...
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72 hours in St Petersburg
1:00 01/01/1970
Russia’s second city has been known as St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and finally became St Petersburg again when it was renamed in 1991. It is the most northern city in the world and whilst...
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Putting the luxury into a luxury riding safari
1:00 01/01/1970
What makes Africa’s riding holidays so luxurious? A local riding friend asked me recently about a riding safari I’d suggested for his family “Will it be smart enough for my wife?” His fears...
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