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Your country`s top cities / sights?

Hello , Just curious. If someone wanted to visit your country and could go to just one city and just one place where they can experience nature, what would you recommend and why? I live in the Unite

Knowing the Language (was: 10-day trip to Europe)

Hello -- Sissi expressed some concern not knowing French. My advice is not to worry. I am a hopeless linguist, but have developed a few techniques to help me survive where I don`t speak the language

Traveling with Guide Dog

Hello -- My sister, Julie, has just received word that her guide dog, Sonia, will be delivered to her on August 11. Julie and Sonia will go through 15 days of intensive training. Sonia will then be

Frugal Boston

Hello -- My husband and I just returned from a couple of days in Boston celebrating the 43rd anniversary of our meeting. In keeping with our reputation for being frugal (cheap?), we stayed in a hote

Finger Lakes Trip

Hello , My husband and I just returned from a short but really terrific trip to the Finger Lakes region of New York State. It is a physically beautiful area with an extremely rich history. We stayed

Canadian Rail Trip

Thanks so much to those who contributed their thoughts to my query about a cross-Canada rail trip. I spent a few days with my sister, Julie, and we have booked our trip. We will be staying in Toronto

travel Columbia County, NY

The question about netbooks was quite timely, since, after a great deal of research, I just purchased an Asus 1000HA. It has a 10-inch screen 1G of memory; an 120G hard drive; a keyboard large enough

Cold Weather Photography (Was Digital Camera Batteries)

Hello `ve had a number of issues with my digital camera this winter. On New Year`s Day, with the temperature in single digits (F). I went snowshoeing at Art Omi, a large sculpture park that cries to

My love affair with New York City -- long

I have just returned from five days in New York City. I lived there from 1965 to 1993, raising four children in a two-bedroom,one-bath, rent-controlled apartment on Riverside Drive. It was truly the b