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Off to Scotland: Preparing for a trip across the pond
By the time you read this, we’ll already be in Scotland, happily ensconsed in the soft leathered chuminess of The Royal Scots Club, our preferred pied-a-terre in Edinburgh. Located on a quiet...
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Trip to Scotland cursed by rooftop vulture
We’re back! We’re not normally into omens or superstitions. No witches’ potions, eyes of newt or frog digits for us. And certainly no black cat or ladder phobias. But then, the day before we were to...
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Seven-hour tour offers grand look at Isle of Mull
Peter Hall of Mull Wildlife Tours has an idea. A very good idea, in fact. Anyone who takes his seven-hour SUV tour around the magical Scottish Isle of Mull receives a complete listing of all the bird...
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I-75 painstakingly detailed in new travel guide
You only have to stand alongside I-75 for a few moments and count the endless stream of passing cars, SUVs, motor homes, trucks and motorcycles to know that tens of millions of people use this...
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Travel resolutions
With January half over — and most of our resolutions already splattered, or on the brink of extinction — we thought we’d try and breathe new life into some of those well intentioned travel-related...
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Curling rocks Vancouver … and Bowling Green
When the curtain goes up on the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on Feb. 12, one event will almost certainly slide from relative obscurity to center stage. Or rather, to center ice. It’s curling, a quirky...
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Travel memories are made of this …
Hardly a week passes that we’re not asked to name our favorite destination. As travel writers, teachers and tour organizers for more than thirty years, we have to have an all-time favorite. Right?...
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Red letter days
We’re about letters today. One from a reader. And a big red one. Let’s start with the reader’s question. It’s from Richard P. of Cleveland … Q. My wife and I are planning a trip to Europe in November....
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Checking in with friends around the globe
E-mails announcing the exciting launch of the TFP “Star” to our Toledo Free Press travel correspondents around the world found them all in a state of hyperactivity… Sydneysiders, Robert Matthysen and...
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Holliday Travels: Star-struck
The joyous birth of a bright new “Star” in the Northwest Ohio media galaxy got us thinking about some of the other stars we have known…and loved… Like London’s Evening Star. Growing up in the UK...
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Mistakes travelers make
With the tourist season hovering tantalizingly — or ominously, depending on your present mindset — just over the horizon, what better time to look at some of the biggest errors routinely made by...
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Holliday Travels: Driving with Miss Emma
A few changes. Last week, instead of slaving over a hot column, we took off for a five-day road trip to Virginia, to visit travel friends on Smith Mountain Lake, an hour or so out of Roanoke. Our last...
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Volcanic air-travel shutdown a unique challenge
After almost a quarter century of leading groups around the world, we’ve been on the pointy edge of just about every conceivable travel convulsion. We’ve been delayed by ice and snow and high winds....
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Slippery Elm Trail offers prime bike-riding conditions
Have you ridden a bike lately? Like the one that’s been languishing in the darkest corner of your garage since it was unceremoniously dumped there at the first mention of an impending cold snap last...
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The long drive north
It always seems to take the better part of a week to fall into the rhythm of “Up North” living and to feel fully at ease in our log cabin in the Huron National Forest, where we spend most of the...
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