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Stories written by Jacquie Kubin
Jacquie Kubin is an award winning writer and wanderer. Restless by nature and anxious to experience new things, both in the real world and online, Jacquie shares travel and culinary highlights, introduces readers to the chefs and creative people she meets and shares the tips, life and travel information people want to read.

Travel Italy: Luxury in Tuscany at Villa Pipistrelli

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Neither book nor movie, nor photograph can capture Tuscany because it really is the people that make it more than special.

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Belize | Caye Caulker: Caribbean sea, intimate island – part II

Front and Middle streets merge

A trip to the Belize Barrier Reef is on the schedule as is time just sitting at the “split,” a spot designed to inspire, one can easily imagine one of the beat generation poets, enjoying the romantic view of the shallow, turquoise waters that intersects the island.

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Slums hidden behind Cairo’s luxury

The Sphinx before The Pyramid at Giza (Photo: Jacquie Kubin)

The contrast is stark. The luxury along the Nile enjoyed by a small percentage of Cairene and tourist juxtaposed against the poverty and slums that over 70% of the Egyptian people live in is brutal.

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Belize | Caye Caulker – Sensational island of sand, scuba and sea driven winds

Islands and atoll dot the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize

Caye Caulker is one of the islands that sits off the coast of Belize, a small nation located in Central America whose coastline is entirely on the Caribbean Sea; the only nation in Central America that does not have land along the North Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Maya 2012: The Long Jump calendar counts down to 12-21-201

National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Maya mask. Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche.

On December 21, 2012, or 13.0.0.0.0, the Mayan Long Jump calendar comes to an end. Depending on whom you are speaking with, this has a variety of meanings from the end of the world to a new global awakening of spirituality and peace.

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Freeport – Grand Bahama Island: Luxury, fine dining, exciting eco tours

Perfect table-for-two at China Beach

My suggestion? Take a long weekend break from the winds and cold by heading to Freeport, Bahama.

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Chef Scala’s La Luce at the Waldorf-Astoria, Orlando

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Italian food, with its rich tapestry of flavors, should always be served family style and a friendly staff that meets each and every request with ease, as it is at La Luce.

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Cleopatra reigns at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute exhibit

Franklin Institute, Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa (11/08/10) – The Franklin Institute, a center for science education with hands-on exploration for children and adults presents  “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt” through January 2, 2011. The Franklin Institute is located in the Parkway Museum District is located in the City Center area were visitors will find Philadelphia [...]

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Baltimore Dining: Cork’s Restaurant

Chef Jerry Pelligrino leads a pizza class

Baltimore’s Cork’s Restaurant located in Federal Hill, Baltimore features Maryland wines and freshly made pastas and sausage by Chef Jerry Pelligrino.

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Annapolis uncovered: Behind colonial doors

A haunted house in Annapolis, Maryland (Photo: Jacquie Kubin)

To visit Annapolis is to visit one of our country’s oldest capital cities. A place where Colonial history is vibrantly alive.

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