By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Tlalpujahua, a little mountain town on the northeast end of the Mexican state of Michoacán, just two and a half hours outside Mexico City, didn’t start off to be a Christmas village. In fact, when it was first founded by Spanish settlers back in 1560, it was primarily a mining town, home to the Dos Estrellas mine,
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By RICH GRANT It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington had dinner here. As Washington dined, 2,400 of his men assembled outside along the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF It’s an ideal setting for a Christmas pageant: the little colonial town of Tepotzotlán, just an hour northwest of Mexico City. Sometimes referred to as the capital of the uniquely Mexican Churrigueresque style of architecture, the 17th and early 18th century buildings of Tepotzotlán, with their gilded, flourished, curlicued and cherub-topped buildings, indeed offer
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BY RICH GRANT It was winter and I’d had enough of it. Too much snow; too much cold. I needed a summer in Europe. I needed to walk in twilight past splashing fountains, to linger over a good meal at an outdoor cafe, to see flowers and statuary and history and art, all placed around me, for no reason except
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BY RICH GRANT If you want to leave the noise and chaos of the 21st century behind and travel back to a simpler time, there’s nothing quite like an early morning stroll down the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia. By noon, DOG Street (as the locals call it) will be swarming with tourists and shoppers, but if you
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By RICH GRANT … “Jubilee!” — which closed on Feb. 11, 2016 — was pure Vegas – the longest running show in town, running continuously for 35 years…
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By RICH GRANT … No trip to England is complete without seeing a redcoat, and there are many ways to catch a glimpse of these stately guardians of history…
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By RICH GRANT … With a little planning, Disney World can be the ultimate E-ticket ride for grownups, without Mickey or Donald…
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By RICH GRANT … It’s almost as simple, and quite often considerably cheaper, to island hop around Greece on public ferries like the locals do…
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By RICH GRANT It was a wild, cold, blowing October afternoon in Charlevoix, Michigan, and as I crossed the street I heard a woman say to her friend, “Is that snow? Oh, thank heavens! Now we can finally get our town back.” I knew what she meant. I was a stranger here, but even on a first visit,
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