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  1. 50 best US presidential sites

    01 February 2012

    Presidents’ Day: that strategic February Monday holiday in the US that’s situated at arm’s length between George Washington’s birthday (February...

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  2. Twilight tourism in the Pacific Northwest

    10 October 2011

    The town was quiet. Tour buses with curly, girly lettering on the side advertising Twilight tours were parked, idle and...

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  3. Fangtastic! The world’s best vampire-spotting locations.

    09 August 2011

    Vampires and their stories seem to be enjoying an eternal renaissance in contemporary fiction and film. Anne Rice’s Interview with...

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  4. Riding the rails: classic train journeys of the world

    02 August 2011

    Hand the porter your luggage, climb aboard and relive the golden days of railroading on these spectacular journeys.Copper Canyon Railway, MexicoThe...

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  5. Beer, coffee, wine and spirits of the Pacific Northwest

    05 April 2011

    Pacific Northwesterners like to say that surviving the long, gray, rainy winters hinges on two things: beer and coffee. But...

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  6. Loving the eccentric Pacific Northwest

    01 April 2011

    The USA’s Pacific Northwest is known for its magnificent landscape, its cities of progressive thought and innovation, its music and...

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  7. Cruising Alaska: a starter guide

    17 February 2011

    While many independent travelers will find the strictures of ‘cruise life’ a bit stifling, there are plenty of reasons to...

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  8. Seattle’s Fremont neighbourhood

    20 January 2011

    ‘De Liberta Quirkas,’ meaning ‘Freedom to be Peculiar,’ is the Fremont neighbourhood motto. This declaration blazons a giant 1950’s cold...

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  9. American pie: slicing across the country

    24 November 2010

    Pie is turning up all over the US, having reinvented itself from a dowdy church supper ware to a stylish...

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  10. Cheese travel: tips from a cheesemonger

    04 October 2010

    Gordon Edgar is the cheese buyer for San Francisco’s famous Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, a store that is well-known by Bay...

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  11. Lonely Planet’s top 10 USA fall trips

    13 September 2010

    Summertime weather is starting to give way to fall, but that doesn’t mean you have to shelve your road trips...

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  12. Road trip rules for Labor Day weekend

    31 August 2010

    Labor Day in the US signals two major things – the last-bash of summer travel when, the AAA estimates,...

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  13. Washington, DC: a user’s guide

    20 August 2010

    So you’re heading to DC? There’s so much more to see in the United States capital than the statue of...

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  14. Five great German towns in the USA

    18 May 2010

    Germany! Oh Germany! If you can’t make it to Europe this year, but desperately need a lederhosen fix (sorry; it’s...

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  15. Ice & fire: the Pacific Northwest's volcano trail

    28 March 2010

    Take the scenic route from Seattle to Portland and tiptoe around sleeping giants on this trip down the exquisite volcanic...

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