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Rick Steves' Europe: Market in ProvenceMarket days are an especially big deal throughout France. No single event better symbolizes the French preoccupation with fresh products and their strong ties to the farmer than the weekly market. And in no other region is it more celebrated than in Provence....
SF Gate Sunday, October 04, 2009Rice wine the right waySome interesting tastings can be had right here in the immediate Bay Area. One of the most intriguing of those doesn't even involve wine or grapes. The Takara Sake tasting room in West Berkeley is close to Fourth
Street, but not in the shopping-chic blocks...
SF Gate Sunday, October 04, 2009Alpine County aspens showing fall colorsHighly trained color consultants no doubt have at least 1,527 names for yellow. I had three:
school bus yellow, submarine yellow and midlife-crisis-Corvette yellow (also comes in cherry red). Now I have aspen. More accurately, while standing on a hillside in...
SF Gate Sunday, October 04, 2009Cross-channel cyclingA cycle path across England and France is set to link the Tower of London and the Eiffel Tower by 2012.
Africa.com Sunday, October 04, 2009New Yorker Festival: A tasty bite of the Big AppleOn a Sunday
morning several years ago, my girlfriend and I met writer Calvin Trillin on a
Street corner in New York City, shook hands, and set out to eat our way
toward Brooklyn, walking through Greenwich Village into Little Italy, then Chinatown.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday, October 04, 2009Cheese peepersCANDOR, N.Y. - Rita Kellogg is a tiny slip of a woman, probably no more than 100 pounds soaking wet. But she packs a powerful punch into the goat cheese she and her
family handcraft at Side Hill Acres Dairy Goat Farm in this tiny village in New York's Finger Lakes region.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday, October 04, 2009Amusement parks are tricked out for HalloweenEighty-one percent of amusement parks will hold Halloween or fall-themed events this year.
USATODAY Sunday, October 04, 2009The round-the-world planWe did laundry in Honolulu, Hong Kong and Madrid. Oh, and in a bathtub in Bali. This summer, my husband and I, both well past backpacker age, traveled
around the world in 29 days. That's an average of less than four days in each of the eight countries we visited. It was exhilarating, exhausting, and, of course, the trip of a lifetime.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday, October 04, 2009Travels with SteinbeckSALINAS, Calif. - While author John Steinbeck was alive, this rural town reviled its most famous native son. Townspeople hated his unflattering accounts of Salinas and its treatment of migrant workers. They burned his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, on Main
Street. They shuddered when he nosed
around the Salinas Valley to get material for East of Eden, his best-selling novel about the region.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday, October 04, 2009Senior Traveler: A recipe for learning abroadThere was the 70-year-old, newly a widower, with his son. "He was trying to recapture memories of his Italian
american childhood," Mary Beth Clark recalled, "and share it with the one son who still talked to him."
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