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Entertaining ourselves without technology. Last week I was crossing the hot, remote Uzbek desert with five other women when our van broke down. We found shade and settled in while the leak got fixed. ASE subscriber, Charlotte S. pulled out…
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Guest Writer Carol Santora Reports on her trip to Moscow. Over the years, we have enjoyed many novels that included history and intrigue about the Kremlin, Red Square, KGB/Lubyanka, Vladimir Putin and recently the Hotel Metropol. This summer we had…
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South of Portland is day trip distance from Boston and the Down East towns like Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Blue Hill are well-known destinations for perennial summer visitors. An often over-looked part of the coast is Mid-Coast Maine. The…
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Sharon Lorenzo shares her Bhutan adventure with ASE readers. Largest Buddha in the world, in Bhutan Landlocked between China and India in the Eastern Himalayan region is the world’s smallest economy with a population of approximately 798,000 people in…
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Enjoy long, stress-free drives. Spring, summer and early fall are the seasons for road trips, with the winter holidays an isolated spike. A survey done by Starbucks showed that of the 1,000 adults surveyed, 55% planned their road trips and 45%…
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Is travel redundancy smart or lazy? There are many advantages to repeating vacations year after year. We took our kids to the same spot in Florida for spring break for many, many years. They felt it was a second home….
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Add personality and sparkle to the basics. Scarf necklaces are part scarf, part necklace – and they lift your basic wardrobe. They add color during the day and sparkle for the evening. I wear mine as pictured above, but I…
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Carol Santora travels to Southern Africa Traveling to Southern Africa and in particular, Botswana, transports you into another world. There are multiple political, social and economic challenges in all these countries, but the feeling of the Garden of Eden with…
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Planning a successful multi-generation family trip to Italy and beyond. From ASE writer and photographer, Carol Santora This summer we traveled with our entire family for a birthday celebration in Tuscany. Family time is so special but how do you…
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