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Hopefully you’ve finished your Christmas shopping by now. If not, you’ll have to get your hustle on. And maybe next year, plan ahead and visit one of the Christmas markets held traditionally in Germany but found all over the world, including Toronto, Paris, England, Chicago and Georgetown, Colorado. Fulfill all your holiday fantasies at one [...]
Stereotypes — Canadian and Otherwise
by Kathryn Whitbourne | December 3, 2011
We have a viewer in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in the Canadian prairies to thank for this week’s podcast. Laurie brought her quirky little town to our radar and we thought it deserved wider notice. Who knew that tunnel ran directly from Moose Jaw to Chicago during Prohibition? There are actually two tours of the tunnels: [...]
Doing this podcast on literary landmarks was a labor of love. I love to read and I love to travel so what could be better than combining the two? We had so many other writers that we had to leave out, that I thought I’d provide a list in case you’d like explore some other [...]
I attended the Atlanta Travel and Adventure Show over the weekend, where I listened to a couple of talks by Pauline Frommer, creator of Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, who was spilling over with delightful tips on how to travel free and cheap.
Here’s what’s free right now in travel:
Yesterday, Katie and I recorded an episode that had a little (or a lot) to do with breadfruit — the prickly, enormous fruit of a tropical tree. Breadfruit is native to the Pacific islands, but it made its way to the West Indies as a possible solution to a British food problem: cheaply feeding the slaves of Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles after the American Colonies declared independence.
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