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Donald Strachan

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5 of the Best Things to Do in Amsterdam with Kids

Despite some obvious considerations, Amsterdam works brilliantly for a vacation with children. The city has interactive museums designed to appeal to youngsters, canal boats and trams…

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London Pub Crawl: The Best Bars Around Historic Fleet Street

If London is, as is often claimed, less a single, cohesive city than a collection of villages, then the pubs are the souls of those villages. “The local” is a place to wind down after…

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London for Free

No city in the world offers as many free museums and places to visit than London . Most major museums are open every day so there's no excuse not to admire a Renoir or delve into…

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7 Days, 7 Resorts: Skiing Italy's Aosta Valley

It's not every resort that can keep a variety-hungry skier or boarder happy for a whole week. Pick your spot right, however, and you can ride a different hill every day. The Valle…

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London Walking Tour: Wizards and Wanderings

On this walk you'll visit the principal site where public beheadings took place for more than 400 years and encounter a sinister-looking gate topped by stone skulls. The walk takes in…

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8 Italian Masterpieces That Barely Survived

War after war, occupation followed by revolution, bad luck combined with bad judgment -- all have contributed to the destruction of Italy's art treasures. A fire in the Sala del…

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How to See the Best of London

With London's abundance of sights, how much can you manage to see in just one trip? Plenty. In this tour, you'll visit the oldest (Westminster Abbey); the newest (British Airways…