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  • Ireland’s Ashford Castle: very popular with American families
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    Ireland’s Ashford Castle: very popular with American families

    ByEileen Ogintz October 15, 2015July 15, 2021

    Ashford Castle, in western Ireland on 350 acres along the shores of Lough Corrib and the River Cong, is famous for its fishing and falconry but if you’re a boy just staying in a bona-fide castle is the real attraction.

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  • To a Colorado resort that’s no longer hard to reach
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    To a Colorado resort that’s no longer hard to reach

    ByEileen Ogintz October 8, 2015July 15, 2021

    Tiny Telluride is a popular place. Nestled in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, the mountain range has the highest concentration of 13,000 and 14,000 foot peaks in North America

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  • Time to celebrate Halloween everywhere all month
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    Time to celebrate Halloween everywhere all month

    ByEileen Ogintz October 1, 2015July 8, 2021

    No, I’m not a little early, though Halloween is nearly a month away. That’s because everyone from hotels to theme park to attractions to campgrounds to museums now have special Halloween doings that typically go on all month long.

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  • A local tour of Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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    A local tour of Seattle’s Pike Place Market

    ByEileen Ogintz September 28, 2015July 6, 2021

    We’ve signed on for Seattle’s only chef-led tour of the market with Elizabeth McClure’ new company Eat Seattle Tours. She also does cooking classes in the Market’s Atrium Kitchen, shopping with the students first for ingredients .

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  • Hotels restaurants increasingly focusing on local food and healthy choices
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    Hotels restaurants increasingly focusing on local food and healthy choices

    ByEileen Ogintz September 27, 2015July 15, 2021

    It is Friday night in Seattle. But what’s interesting is the Sazerac with its distinctive chandeliers and hip-but-casual vibe and food best described as modern South meets Northwest is in Kimpton’s Monaco Hotel.

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  • Innovation on display at Seattle Museum
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    Innovation on display at Seattle Museum

    ByEileen Ogintz September 25, 2015July 6, 2021

    Seattle has always been a center of innovation and it’s on display at the Bezos Center of Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry. Did you know the Native Americans and traders invented a whole new language?

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  • Get away from electronics to a fall festival or pumpkin patch
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    Get away from electronics to a fall festival or pumpkin patch

    ByEileen Ogintz September 23, 2015June 28, 2023

    Take advantage of the glorious fall weather wherever you live to get them away from electronics — you too — for a day or a weekend and head to a fall festival, an apple orchard or a pumpkin patch.

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  • A haunting visit to an elementary school in Hiroshima
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    A haunting visit to an elementary school in Hiroshima

    ByEileen Ogintz September 17, 2015July 16, 2021

    I’ve got chills as Amber Whaley, 12, and her friend Miko Uno, 11, lead us into their elementary school’s basement. This was all that was all that remained of the Honkawa Elementary School when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 70 years ago this past August 6.

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  • Mexico in the fall – special insights into culture and heritage
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    Mexico in the fall – special insights into culture and heritage

    ByEileen Ogintz September 14, 2015July 10, 2021

    Visit Mexico during an annual festival and you will have special insight into the country’s cultural traditions and heritage. Mexico, of course, is a lot more than the sum of its beaches, as wonderful as they are.

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  • Getting out of the car at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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    Getting out of the car at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    ByEileen Ogintz September 10, 2015July 9, 2021

    Are you a windshield tourist? That’s what they call the many visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park who simply traverse the park’s famous 30-plus mile Newfound Gap Road through the park and don’t get out of the car much, if at all.

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