New York is a city of neighbourhoods, each with their own vibe. Nolita is a tiny area of cobbled streets, cool bars and funky shops, sitting just north of little Italy (hence the name No-Li-Ta).
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Cape Cod is a thin sandy peninsular that makes the shape of an arm wrestler’s elbow as it protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean. Once there was enough cod in the sea that, so they say,
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Autumn in New England is a unique experience. The forested hills stretching up to the Canadian border become awash with the most amazing displays of colour as the leaves turn from green to vivid yellows,
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Had things turned out differently in the American Civil War, it could well have been Richmond in Virginia that would now be home of the most powerful government in the world. Richmond was the Confederate
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Running parallel to the east coast of North America are the Appalachians, a chain of ancient mountains once the size of the Rockies. Today the mountains, after eons of weathering, form a spine of hills
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Our time in Florida had felt a bit like being on holiday within our trip – all beaches and resort towns. As we headed into Georgia we seemed to re-enter the ‘South’. We holed up
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If the southern states are like a country separate from the rest of the US, then New Orleans is something different again. OK, the CBD is pretty non-descript (with the exception of the awesome Superdome,
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We left Memphis and ventured further into the Deep South. We travelled through some off-the-beaten-track forests known as the Sipsey Wilderness, battling mosquitoes and hot humid weather broken only by frequent violent afternoon thunder storms.
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The Mississippi is the greatest and most important river on the continent, forming a dividing line between east and west, and a useful feature to guide the next part of our journey. We picked up
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After a very pleasant day or two of cruising through endless cornfields and tiny farm town after tiny farm town, we came upon Minneapolis. Here was a lovely city, with an extensive waterfront of old
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