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  • Travel Tidbits – Arthur Avenue, the Bronx: The real Little Italy?

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    New London airport ‘could be built in six years’ A new airport sited in the Thames Estuary could take as little as six years to complete .. Telegraph (London)       Adventure along the African coast Namibia’s harsh coastline and desert hold mystery and beauty… MSN.com         36 Hours in Quebec…

  • Where to go Whale watching

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    The Cetacea hold an important lesson for us. The lesson is not about whales and dolphins, but about ourselves. There is at least moderately convincing evidence that there is another class of intelligent beings on Earth beside ourselves. They have behaved benignly and in many cases affectionately towards us. We have systematically slaughtered them. Little…

  • Most scenic cruises

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    “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead   Antarctica and the South Shetland Islands     Galapagos Islands    …