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Rouketopolemos

Rouketopolemos is a holiday that just wouldn’t fly in the US. During Midnight Mass on Easter Sunday, two rival church parishes on the Greek island of Chios literally fire “rockets,” or fireworks, at each other. The ultimate goal is to…

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Travel Trivia Thursday

Alison, Ivan, Adam, Nick, and Todd correctly identified the Amazon River for last week’s question. As much as 300,000 cubic meters per second of water flows from the Amazon during the rainy season. To put that into perspective: Niagara Falls’…

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Croatia Boat Show

March is here, and I think that I speak for the majority of us when I say I am ready for winter to end. Cabin fever has set in and we are ready for spring. There are quite a few…

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Travel Trivia Thursday

Congrats to Nick, Peggy Sue, James, and Todd for correctly identifying the Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia. When it was completed in 1901, it was one of the most technically advanced bridges in Europe. This river is sometimes referred to…

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Snowbombing: Ibiza on the Mountain

Generally, people are trying to avoid winter weather when they travel for a vacation. The goal is to escape the snowy doldrums of their daily life and get to somewhere warm. Skiers and winter sports enthusiasts are usually the exception…

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