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Carol Pucci wrote an interesting article in today’s Seattle Times about two American ex-pats who host Sunday dinners for weary travellers. Each venue draws an eclectic group from all walks of life and offers a great way to meet fellow travellers. Contact Jim Haynes or Patricia Laplante-Collins and enjoy a different Parisian experience.
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A great part of travelling is the opportunity to experience the food and drinks of the country you are visiting but you can also travel through food without boarding a aircraft. After one too many dinners at our local restaurant, we resolved to try new dining experiences in 2007, Twenty-Six Dinners at new (for [...]

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The Yakima Valley’s growing reputation for great wine and friendly vintners is a good reason to visit this under appreciated area of Washington State. From 20-29 April, the Yakima Valley Spring Fling Festival welcomes the visitors with hot jazz and the fruits of the season.
Spring Fling begins with Prosser’s Wine and Hot Jazz Bash, [...]

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I enjoy contributing to blog carnivals, and very happy to be part of the First Vegas Blog Carnival with my Bouchon review. Vegas is a city I never planned to visit but once I had experienced the insanity of The Strip I’m just drawn back again and again.

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Las Vegas is a paradox, a popular United States vacation spot that expends extraordinary effort to be anything but America on the surface. Within the Vegas paradox, cheap buffets and overpriced food court food has replaced the finer living that helped make Vegas the playground for starlets and wealthy socialites. The culinary void in [...]

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