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Friday Boots News

Two quick bits of BootsnAll news before the weekend begins… Forbes has released their fairly extensive list of 2005 top picks for websites, including a variety of travel categories. In the travel blog group, the Boots gang gets a mention. Yeah! Also, today on the Boots Blog, Donovan plugs an August 25 reading in Portland […]

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Think Cool Travel

Have you heard about the “coolest” Travel Summit on the Planet? Many of us across the US are baking right now in extreme heat and humidity. So, if you need to cool down, take a minute to daydream of a friendlier climate, where stars of the travel publishing industry just happen to be meeting soon […]

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Bryson at the Smithsonian

Just saw this on the Olsson’s Event Calendar: Who: Bill Bryson Chats About Wales, hosted by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program When: Thursday, July 28 at 6:30PM Where: Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St., N.W. (Foggy Bottom Metro, Blue/Orange line) Cost: Gen. Admission $15, RAP Members $12, Senior Members $11 Fresh from vacation in the Welsh […]

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Book Review: Belonging

Isabel Huggan’s Belonging: Home Away From Home is a memoir of her life as experienced through the various places she has lived. Huggan shares stories about living abroad in the south of France, the Philippines, Kenya and Tasmania, while also recalling memories from her childhood in Canada. The chapters float about, unhitched to a particular […]

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