Category Archives: Travel

You’ve decided where you want to go – now is the fun part: planning where to sleep, what to look at and how to stuff your face. Hopefully, these Essential Bits will lead you to the unmissable bits to any place you venture for the first time or the twentieth.

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Best Bits of Old City, Philadelphia, USA

Only have one day in Philadelphia to shop, eat and drink.  Spend that one day [...]

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Château Vaux-Le-Vicomte
Best Bits of the Château Vaux-Le-Vicomte, France

You arrive in the village of Maincy, turn down a long tree-lined avenue, and find [...]

Easy Day trips from Paris_ Le Petit Trianon Versailles
Best Bits of Le Petit Trianon Versailles, France

Looking for an easy day trip from Paris? Versailles is so close and Le Petit [...]

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Best Bits of Luxury: Cowdray House, West Sussex, UK

What a glorious day! I had been to Chamonix and it rained, Piemonte and it [...]

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RELAIS SANT'UFFIZIO
A Best Bits Hotel: Relais Sant’Uffizio, Piedmont, Italy

Why hadn’t I returned to Piemonte? After my first year of university, I lived with [...]

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Whitney-Plantation-Louisiana-USA
Best Bits of the Whitney Plantation, Louisiana, USA

Following our guide, the ten of us shuffled into the cramped cabin, leaving us barely [...]

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