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Faroe Island-Hopping

July 8th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_685" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Rugged Beauty of the Faroe Islands"][/caption] Sitting smack-dab in the center of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream, the Faroe Islands are a bundle of green-archipelago paradise p read more

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Put a Cork in It!

November 14th, 2009

Playing poker makes you wonder where you’ve landed: the throne of some alien world or the sweaty tiles of your smoky basement. This is the high and the low of gambling. The draw of poker, like drawing three cards in hope of catching a book-end str read more

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Try the European Angler Experience

July 10th, 2009

In the annals of spirited holidays for the angler, what could be a more memorable trip than fly fishing on one of Europe’s gazillion rivers, lakes and ponds? Forget the steamy streets of touristy Rome, Paris, Madrid or Berlin this trip. Head f read more

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Amalfi’s Off Season

April 8th, 2009

Summer is busy in Europe, no matter what the economy says. Travel is sort of like beer: you drink it when you’re up because you can … and you gulp it when you’re down to drown your sorrows. When economies sour, travel opportunity o read more

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Long Gone Are the “Europe on $1 a Day” Days …

April 2nd, 2009

[caption id="attachment_671" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Vltava River Bridges"][/caption] But Euro-cities are still accessible. First thing is, you have to put costs into perspective: people earn a helluva lot more money these days than read more

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