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I don’t know why Finland has always beckoned. Its location between Russia, that looming communist country to the east and the very liberal Scandinavian presence on the west was intriguing.

The stately Victorian mansion a block off Main Street and not far from the City Hall opened its doors to an eager viewing public Dec. 4.

Churches are constantly repurposed. In Istanbul, Turkey, St. Sophia’s began as a Christian Church, morphed into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453, became an historical structure in 1934

It was his eyes that drew me in — focused on the distant horizon, unblinking, looking for what he was hearing. A mature Botswana male lion, the largest of the

In 1975, my husband, Ed Clark, and I spent our honeymoon in Guatemala City where he had a medical study grant. We fell in love with that beautiful, green country

I’ve stood at the base of the South American continent and watched boats pass through the Straits of Magellan. At the bottom of Australia’s continent lies Melbourne, a charming city

In the spring and fall in Paris, I like to sleep with windows open, with an occasional owl’s hoot accompanying my dreams. Only dogs barking interrupt the night’s peace. Morning

When I was growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, passenger trains in the U.S. were numerous and popular. One even transported my kindergarten class between my hometown of Plainview,

I don’t remember the first time I heard the word “funicular.” Inclined railroad or an incline are more widely used words for the steeply tilted contraption that lifts passengers quickly

La Jolla library offers a preliminary peek at “Journey of a Thousand Miles” and showing of Perry Chen’s “Changyou’s Journey