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Thursday, 20 October 2022

St. Louis high school roots go deep to create a rich community spirit

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British friends hovered between bewilderment and incredulity when I said I was planning a whole vacation around my high school reunion. Whil...
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Tuesday, 18 October 2022

A trio of St. Louis classics captures our limited sightseeing time

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It’s been eight years since I’ve set foot in my home town. For some people, that would be unremarkable. But before this stint I'd never ...
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Sunday, 16 October 2022

St. Genevieve offers peace, quiet and time travel back to colonial French America

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If you want to know what St. Louis looked like in the colonial era, there’s a fantastic video in the newly-renovated museum under the Gatewa...
Friday, 14 October 2022

The Land of Lincoln rewards sightseers, but steer clear of the horseshoes

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What in the world am I doing in Springfield, Illinois? Regular readers will know that the United States doesn’t feature much in this blog. B...
Monday, 10 October 2022

A Lloyd Wright masterpiece is the jewel in the Illinois capital’s crown

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Springfield, Illinois, is best known for its Lincoln sites. The saviour of union lived here before he was elected president, and his body re...
Saturday, 1 October 2022

No surprise that 3-star Core leaps to the top of my best meals ever list

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I understand that the guards on death row do their best to honour inmates’ desires for their last meals. I wonder how they’d react if I were...
Saturday, 17 September 2022

Tredegar and Castell Coch: Two Welsh jewels cut for entertaining

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Pembrokeshire was wonderfully relaxing, but low on the culture that usually makes up part of any annual girls’ trip. Fortunately, Cardiff si...
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