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2015 Highlights: Best Meals of the Year

It’s the hardest post of the year for us to write. We eat to live, live to eat, and basically are professional eaters if there ever was such a thing. Add to that that we live in one of the world’s food epicenters,...

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Amsterdam’s Famed Canal Cruises

The prospect of doing a canal cruise during our weekend in Amsterdam is not something that initially aroused our sense of adventure.  Both of us tend to stay away from “touristy” things, choosing to find...

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Amsterdam Weekend

We landed in Amsterdam early on a Friday and already a little worse for the wear. Our usually uneventful travel to the airport was hampered by the UK’s first real snow in several years, rendering the roads completely...

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We’re on a Houseboat!

What would you do if you won the lottery? We play the lottery game frequently and right up there with a yacht (and crew of course) to sail the world  and a beach treehouse in Thailand, a houseboat in Amsterdam is...