13 Oct

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BY JANET STEINBERG Zlata Praha (Golden Prague), the city of a hundred golden spires, is one of the prettiest cities in the world.  Divided by the Vltava (Moldau) River, Prague was fortunate not to have suffered destruction in World War II.   PRAGUE: THE CITY OF 100 SPIRES With a history of over 1000 years, Prague is considered the soul of Bohemia.  In 1939, the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia. After...

29 Sep

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BY JANET STEINBERG There are said to be only three places in the world with a Mediterranean climate: The actual Mediterranean coast…Catalina Island, California…and the coast of Chile around Santiago.  And, if you work it right, you could enjoy the best of The Med’s climate 12 months of the year. During spring, summer, and fall, that glorious Mediterranean climate is yours for the...

22 Sep

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BY JANET STEINBERG I just returned from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where I had the pleasure of seeing four beautiful new faces in the city known as “The Venice of America”. The first three faces were those of three beautiful babies.  Granted I am a bit prejudiced (they are my...

15 Sep

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BY JANET STEINBERG It Is the bottom of the world!   For those of you who want to cruise around South America chances are, at some point, you will sail through the Strait of Magellan to Chile on the West Coast of South America. If so, you will be in Punta Arenas...

01 Sep

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BY JANET STEINBERG Around 600 BC, Greek merchants from Asia Minor founded the port town of Massilia (Marseilles) that is now Marseilles’ bustling Vieux Port (Old Harbor).  The twenty-six centuries that followed have made Marseilles the oldest of the great French cities and the city with the second largest population in France.   MARSEILLES’ VIEUX PORT Although Marseilles lies at the...

18 Aug

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BY JANET STEINBERG Chicago, "that toddling town" that keeps reinventing itself, never ceases to amaze me.  The "Windy City,” teeming with life and exuding an excitement all its own, is now fully grown into a sophisticated metropolitan area that rivals any major city in the world. Chicago’s twenty-nine miles of lakefront, that form the front lawn of what has become one of the world's greatest cities,...

04 Aug

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BY JANET STEINBERG  The reign in Spain is not mainly on the plain…but in the city of Barcelona that reigns as my numero uno city in Spain.  So, let me take you along to Barcelona.  Ole!!! MIMES WELCOME VISITORS TO BARCELONA Catalonia’s capital city of Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain,...

21 Jul

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BY JANET STEINBERG I don’t know if you would call me a restaurant, hotel, or movie groupie.  In reality, I am none of the above.  I am a travel groupie with an insatiable curiosity…one who likes to check out places where some of my favorite movies were filmed. Come,...

07 Jul

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BY JANET STEINBERG  “Start spreading the news”, ole’ blue eyes crooned…  New York, New York is a city so great it says its name twice.   Nicknamed "The Big Apple" in 1971, the term was originally used in the 1920s and 1930s by jazz musicians as a way of saying, "There are many apples on the success tree, but when you...

30 Jun

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BY JANET STEINBERG     From the Boardwalk to the Bay, Atlantic City, New Jersey has been drawing people to its shore for over a century.  This major resort city, 120-miles south of New York City on Absecon Island, exudes a small town charm coupled with an international big city environment. The home of the Miss America Pageant, Atlantic City was founded in the...