Author Archives: Isabel Conway

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Isabel Conway

Seattle Travel Guide

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Puglia. Perhaps Italy’s best kept secret

16/05/2015 by .
Not so long ago Puglia, at the tip of Italy’s boot, was down at heel, poor, neglected and far flung. No more

Not so long ago Puglia, at the tip of Italy’s boot, was down at heel, poor, neglected and far flung. No more. Flanked by two seas the thin peninsula is often described as ‘Italy’s best kept secret’.

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Insider Guide to Antwerp

11/12/2014 by .
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Antwerp is not chocolate box beautiful  like Bruges, nor does it have that busy   pick and mix’ selection combination of transient Eurocrats and tourists you taste in Brussels. Belgium’s second city is more ‘urban  praline’  so in Isabel’s Insider Guide to Antwerp, you can look forward to savouring a luscious centre wrapped up in delicious outer coatings.

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South east Florida and the Everglades

13/10/2014 by .
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A first timer might believe Florida is 90 per cent theme parks and  golf resorts, the Sunshine State  attractions relentlessly plugged by the travel brochures. But it is easier than you think to forget about   ‘Mickey’  and his mates when you visit south east Florida and the Everglades, going alligator spotting in the Everglades, cruising down the Florida Keys in a convertible with a warm breeze nicely messing your hair up or even parading your new plastic surgery among the bodies beautiful along Miami’s famed South Beach.

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Maastricht. The centre of Europe

14/09/2014 by .
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The Netherlands most southerly city of Maastricht can rightly claim the title “Centre of   Europe” symbolizing the European dream ever since the signing of the historic Maastricht Treaty back in 1992.

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Cleveland

25/08/2014 by .
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Where in the world can you view Keith Moon’s platform shoes, Jimmy Hendrix’s Stratocaster and the largest collection of Beatles memorabilia anywhere? In Cleveland Ohio, that’s where. The place literally rocks, I am told.

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