Category Archives: U.S.

My Top 5 Moments from Louisville, Ky.

Posted on April 20, 2010 by elliewick

For an Easter holiday, my parents and I went to perhaps an unlikely destination: Louisville. In actuality, though, it was a great destination at this time of year. Spring had sprung, the air was fresh, Churchill Downs was (and still … Continue reading →

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Weekend trips in Ohio

Posted on March 9, 2010 by elliewick

I’m always excited about planning trips, but my friend Holly, who blogs about thrift, just wrote about making summer travel plans. Check out one.thrifty.wife here: Warmup prompts vacation agenda. She blogged about day and weekend trip ideas in Indiana and … Continue reading →

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1 year after the blizzard of ’09 in London and Dublin…

Posted on February 6, 2010 by elliewick

…that same blizzard followed me to the United States, dumping maybe 4 inches of snow on another city that freaks out when there are snow flurries. The snow wouldn’t have been so bad if there hadn’t been so much wind. … Continue reading →

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The top 5 German (and Austrian) things to do in Frankenmuth, Mich.

Posted on January 26, 2010 by elliewick

At the beginning of January, I headed up north to Frankenmuth, Mich., to see if its claim as “Michigan’s Little Bavaria” could satisfy the needs of someone who’d spent an ample amount of time in the real Bavaria. Frankenmuth succeeded … Continue reading →

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