Travel

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  3 great ideas for a last-minute summer trip

  With the first week of July in the books it is fair to say summer is going by quick.

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  Time travel to Paris at the turn of the century in Portland

  One assumes Paris of the Belle Époque was vastly different than today. Yet, there are remarkable parallels between now and then, not least the immense wealth and opulence of the richest of the rich.

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  Where to go, right now: Driving across the Empire State

  Of course, New York is way more than New York City. I discovered this during a summer road trip across the Empire State. Along the way I experienced three distinct regions: Western New York, the Finger Lakes and the Thousand Islands.

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  In Cleveland, the only mistake is not visiting

   The days of Cleveland being known as the Mistake by the Lake are long gone. Yes, the city’s fortunes have ebbed and ...

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  48 hours in Trier: Saints, holy relics and Roman ruins

   The ancient city gate is the first clue that Trier is hardly a typical German city. Built by the Romans more than ...

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  Postcard from the perfect German layover

  Wiesbaden isn’t the first destination one thinks of when planning a visit to Germany.

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  America’s forgotten French history awaits you in Illinois

  Getting from this rural farm town to nearby Fort de Chartres required driving atop a levee.

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  Visiting Cuba isn’t what you would expect

    It would be an understatement to say going to Cuba is complicated. Several years after the rapprochement under ...

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  How a church bombed by Nazis ended up in Missouri

  The tower of this English Baroque church, which overshadows the campus of the small liberal arts college that surrounds it, is rather striking for a college chapel on these shores.