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Posts Tagged: Europe
Madrid Is On The Move With Spring Sports And Artistic Opportunities
We enter, now, the baseball and golf seasons with last week’s Detroit Tigers Opening Day and this week’s Masters Tournament… Read more »
Authentic Ireland Trip Offers Scenery And Serenity
St. Patrick, by legend, drove the snakes from Ireland, but St. Patrick’s Day drives American tourists to the Emerald Isle…. Read more »
Local Music Adds Flavor to International Travel
More than a snapshot or a forkful of food, traditional local music provokes an authentic “sense of place” at travel… Read more »
Where Can You Go and What Will You Do This Year?
It’s a destination dilemma. Where could you go? And, realistically depending on your time and budget…where can you go? Three-out-of-four Michiganders are planning to… Read more »
Trip to Italy? Or to Spagnuolo’s in Okemos? You decide
Italian brands are “tourist destinations” in their own right, and Vincent and Silvana Spagnuolo, both born in Italy, attempt to… Read more »
The Life of the Venetian Gondoliere
The precise line in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is: “Water, water everywhere nor any… Read more »
Running Of the Bulls Is a Unique Pamplona Tradition
Before dawn on the seventh day of the seventh month in Pamplona, Spain I walked out of the Hotel Palacio… Read more »
Visit Melania Trump’s Homeland in Ljubljana, Slovenia
When model Melania Trump, in her robin’s egg blue Ralph Lauren designer outfit, became the first-ever foreign immigrant in history… Read more »
The Beauty of Venice Continues to Last Even After Thousands of Years
There are few cities which inspire a sense of romance in the Cinderella fashion of Venice, Italy. It’s softly dramatic,… Read more »