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• Visiting a Japanese Onsen, or Learning to Love Letting It All Hang Out
  on Mar 6, 2015 in Asia travel Brian projects Hotels and lodging cleaning at japanese onsen hokkaido hokkaido onsen how to visit japan onsen japan onsen japanese onsen niseko hokkaido niseko onsen onsen onsen tips
  A Japanese onsen is, essentially, just a hot tub filled with mineral-rich waters drawn from nearby hot springs, sans the whirlpool jets and leering swingers chugging margaritas. Located throughout Japan, particularly in peaceful pockets of its sweepi...
• Scotland, Gaelic, and Outlander
  on Mar 4, 2015 in Europe travel History Kerry projects travel movies languages Outlander Scotland Scots language scottish gaelic Scottish Highlands scottish music
  As you travel, do you take time to learn a few words and phrases in an unfamiliar language before you go? It’s a good idea, one that will enhance your journey — and it is an idea Claire Randall did not have time to explore when she found hers...
• Best Online Travel Magazine and Other Awards
  on Mar 3, 2015 in About Us Adventure travel Africa travel encounters Europe travel Latin America travel Literary Travel Perceptive Travel travel stories award winning travel writing NATJA awards perceptive travel online magazine solas awards travel writing awards
  It’s not just award season for music and movies. This is also the time of year when several “best travel writing” awards results come out. Perceptive Travel often gets a nod in these things and this year we scored a major one. The N...
• Postcard from Japan: Chasing Demons on the Slopes of Niseko
  on Feb 27, 2015 in Asia travel Brian projects niseko japan niseko northern resort annupuri niseko skiing niseko tourism skiing in japan skiing in niseko
  He was just laying there, prostrate in the fluffy white snow, this helpless, frustrated little boy stuck in a tricky lip of the bottom-most family run at Niseko Annupuri. A man whom I assumed was his father stared at him from the bottom of the hill &...
• How to See a Major Museum in One Hour
  on Feb 25, 2015 in Art and Art Museums City or urban travel History Sheila projects history how-to art Boston how do I MFA museum museum of fine arts prepare quick science travel
  Sometimes, you don’t have much time. When a major art or history or science museum is nearby during a trip, but you only have an hour or so to see it, is there a way to make the visit worthwhile? Of course, but be prepared for some trade-offs.
• Inside the Beavertown Brewery Taproom in London
  on Feb 20, 2015 in Brian projects City or urban travel Europe travel food & drink beavertown brewery beer beavertown brewery taproom best bars london best london craft beer craft beer london london breweries london craft beer london england
  My, Beavertown Brewery, how you have grown. Launched in 2011 in Hackney as a modest 650-liter brewpub at Duke’s Brew & Que, The House That Robert Plant’s Son Logan Built (sorry, Logan, had to get the celebrity father namedrop out of t...
• Forever West in Cheyenne, Wyoming
  on Feb 19, 2015 in History Sheila projects US travel history Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West pioneer places to see railroads things to do travel western what to do WY Wyoming
  It was very nice of the Wyoming state tourism people to arrange to have a bunch of bison roaming across a hill next to the highway as I crossed the state border – well played! Of course, what really happened was that I simply drove past what I...
• Dublin in Four Statues
  on Feb 17, 2015 in Art and Art Museums City or urban travel Europe travel History Kerry projects history public art art Dublin ireland sculpture
  Two women with shopping bags resting their feet, a girl ona horse, a trade union leader, politician, musicians, writers, an ancient hero who may or may not be a figure of myth, a fiddler, a couple dancing, a cinema usher: Dublin is, indeed, a city of...
• Winter Warrior and West Coast Afternoon Tea
  on Feb 13, 2015 in Canada travel Hotels and lodging Kristin projects photography food culture British Columbia Canada hotel tea travel Vancouver Island Victoria
  When our tiny little seaplane landed on the pier on the shores of Victoria, British Columbia’s capital city, just 30 minutes from the cosmopolitan joy that is Vancouver, I couldn’t hear a thing. It wasn’t the pilot’s fault, of...
• Resume Play: Christchurch goes cricket mad
  on Feb 9, 2015 in Australia & NZ travel City or urban travel Liz projects christchurch hagley oval cricket cricket world cup hagley oval new zealand cricket
  Known as the most English of all New Zealand cities, images of the Christchurch of bygone years has been one of punting on the river, neo-gothic buildings, and cricket in the park. Since the 2011 earthquakes nearly leveled the city, maimed river beds...

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