Photos of Shelopugino, Russia
Travel articles Take Me Home, Italian Roads I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.
A Foodie in the White House: Edible D.C. Our nation's capital is abuzz with Obama fans today, but our nation's best publications have been abuzz with D.C. food news for weeks. Here are some of the more appetizing headlines
Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard? While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Fireworks in the Fireplace Picture of the fireworks effect in the fireplace from Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. Visit Milan: Spruced-up architecture and "fashion central" It's the epicenter of Italian fashion, and shopping around Quadrilatero d'Oro is just too tempting to pass up.
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