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Swiss bliss (and a near miss!) at Eurovision 2025 in Basel

Eurovision Media Centre  Disc-riding 24-year-old Nemo having made history last year as the first non-binary winner of Eurovision for “The Code,” yesterday the 69th edition of world’s largest, longest, and perhaps most anticipated/beloved music competition came back to the country where it was born and first won the contest (with the lovely old chestnut "Refrain"), in 1956. Switzerland´s third largest city (pop. around 177,000). It must´ve been the most exciting thing to happen here since,…

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European Capitals of Culture 2025: Chemnitz, Gorizia, and Nova Gorica

  Ralf Steinberger, Krzysztof Golik, Eleassar Annually for the last 40 years, the cultural poobahs of the European Union have designated one or more of the continent's cities (and as of 2022 it's been three rather than two), as Capitals of Culture, focusing on their own cultural offerings and allowing them to organize a series of wider cultural events (many with a strong pan-European dimension) - which bring in considerable additional revenue; foster urban renewal; and raise their…

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6 nifty nature and adventure activities on São Miguel in Portugal´s Azores islands

 MlennyPortugal's answer to Spain's Canary Islands, the Azores are a nine-island grouping  1,529 kilometres (950 miles) out in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Iberian Peninsula. The largest (759km²/293 square mi.) and most populous of the archipelago, São Miguel, is home to capital Ponta Delgada, but also a spectacular volcanic but verdant landscape including towering cliffs and ancient laurisilva forests that make a truly splendid playground for nature and adventure lovers. read post 

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'Dark tourism' in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a journey through shadows and history

  Adam Jones For several years in the early 1990s, in the wake of the breakup of Yugoslavia, this small country in the Balkans was constantly in the news because of the brutal civil war it suffered between the Muslim Bosniaks and the Orthodox Christian Bosnian Serbs. It has been at peace since December 1995, and more travelers have been discovering its myriad natural, historical, and cultural appeals. But others come for "dark tourism," a trend which involves visiting places associated with…

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    The International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association is always looking for destinations for our press trips. We are currently working on 2011 and 2012. We already have Temecula, CA; Rockland, ME; Switzerland and Nova Scotia for 2010. If any of the countries that are members would like to discuss the possibility of working with us, please let me know. You can contact me directly at mdhill@noralyn.com.

    Maralyn D. Hill, President
    International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association (www.ifwtwa.org)
    Co-Chair of Conference & Press Trip Committee
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