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Singapore with author Anju Gattani

  Scintillating Singapore     By Anju Gattani               My first trip to Singapore, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Singapura’ meaning Lion City, was over twenty years ago when I was a teenager growing up in Hong Kong; it was the first of many visits because this beautiful city of lion dances, Buddhist and Hindu temples, a…

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Greece with Beci Falkenberg

  Greece ….Set Sail for A Mediterranean Adventure By: Beci Falkenberg    One by one eighteen hearty souls negotiated the swaying gangplank to board the M/S Panagiota, our motorized wooden sailboat, for a seven day Greek Island hopping bicycle tour.  We watched as the boat cast-off from the tenth largest coastline in the world…. destination:…

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PRAGUE AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC with Beci Falkenberg

    Simple Seductions…   FALL IN LOVE WITH PRAGUE AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC       By Beci Falkenberg         Food and travel have long shared a shamelessly seductive romance. One of their red-letter affairs swept them away to Prague and the southern region of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Last fall I cycled with them in…

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Mumbai (or Bombay), India with author, Anju Gattani

Bombay and Back   By Anju Gattani   I just returned from a trip to Mumbai, (or Bombay), India, and as always, after having travelled 8,670 miles halfway round the world, I am still dealing with jet lag and a ten-and-a-half-hour time difference.  The more than 20-hour flight always makes me feel as if I’m inside…

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Cruising – New York, New England and Canada by Marilyn Baron

A Three Hour Tour By Marilyn Baron When we set sail on a 7-Day round-trip cruise from New York City to New England and Canada, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, I joked with my sister and her husband, who were accompanying my husband and me, about that familiar line from the Gilligan’s…

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