By now you probably know that Champagne is really just sparkling white wine, but specifically refers to bottles that hail from the Champagne region of France. Most newer growers don’t put champagne on their bottles anymore, but you still know roughly what you’re getting when you buy a bottle of California sparkling wine. But do …
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The U.S. has always been beer-crazy, but it wasn’t until the mid-1980s that ‘brewpubs’ took off and beer lovers everywhere began enjoying hand-crafted bottles of suds with bold flavors and imaginative names. No state encapsulates this love affair better than Colorado, which ranks third in the U.S. in its abundance of microbreweries and brewpubs. Coors …
People think of the Statue of Liberty as an all-American symbol, but she’s not, really. Born and bred in France, she was intended to symbolise not one country but rather an abstract, revolutionary idea: liberty, for everyone, everywhere.
When coming up with a list of some of the best beaches in Florida it is kind of a daunting task. There are just so many to choose from, as well what criteria you use to pick which one wins? Clearly any list of beaches is going to have to make up some of the …
It is the largest country in the world offering a myriad of attractions and wealth of treasures for inquisitive travelers. Visit to Russia to marvel the natural beauty, admire the fascinating history, world class museums and endless sightseeing tours. The cities St. Petersburg and Moscow enjoys the lion’s share of Russia’s tourism. These cities are …
I. M. Pei admitted to knowing little about the music in question when he was chosen to design Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the shores of Lake Erie. After a bit of remedial listening, he set out to create a building that would embody rock’s brash dynamism, and came up with a …
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An often overlooked destination on many Italian vacation itineraries is a visit to the city of Naples. However, being that it can be a short 2 hour train ride from Rome, it is worthy of consideration for your next trip to Italy. Here are some reasons why you should consider this southern Italian city as …
Highway 61 is the famed two-lane road that carried poor rural musicians and sharecroppers out of the dusty Mississippi cotton fields in the 1930s and ’40s. This ‘Blues Highway’ led them north towards Memphis and St. Louis, where audiences first clamoured for the raw, emotional singing and guitar playing that emerged from the Jim Crow …
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