Hamilton, Bermuda Bermuda A thousand miles northeast of Cuba, and around nine hundred miles from the coast of North America, is the island of Bermuda in the north Atlantic …
Colombo, Sri Lanka From the Indian mainland, we cross to the island of Sri Lanka, just off the southernmost tip of Central Asia. Sri Lanka is roughly the same …
Oakridge Uptown on First Street Mid-August www.facemy blog.com/KegCaskFestival The old timber town of Oakridge, scenically nestled in the Cascade Mountains foothills forty miles southeast of Eugene and home to …
As a nation, Cambodia appears to be less receptive to social changes, especially those imposed by outsiders. The greatest forces to resist social changes were and are the Cambodian …
Burns Burns High School and Harney County Chamber of Commerce office Early April www.migratorybirdfestival.com Covering 10,226 square miles but with a population of about 7,500 people, Southeast Oregon’s Harney …
Molalla Dibble House Museum Complex, 620 S Molalla Avenue Second Saturday in September www.dibblehouse.org Look carefully almost anywhere in Oregon and you might spy apple trees nearly as old …
Mount Angel Various venues Mid-September www.oktoberfest.org Oktoberfest celebrations are ubiquitous; annually Oregon hosts perhaps a dozen or more such events at venues ranging from major cities to individual pubs. …
The city of Kyoto features the country’s finest concentration of traditional Japanese gardens. Kyoto’s exceptional examples of the best of the Japanese gardening arts include gardens of refined simplicity …
Stanley, Falkland Islands From Peru we head almost three thousand miles away, across Chile, the Andes and Patagonia, to an isolated archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Falkland …
The view is of steely skyscrapers and neon signs, lush green trees, a colonial cricket pitch flanked by the squat old City Hall and Supreme Court, the super-modern Supertree …