Inspiring Travel Writing from Nancy Lyon: Page 2 of 3
Articles by Nancy Lyon: Page 2 of 3
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All Aboard the Canadian
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Nancy Lyon
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Canada
For my first train trip across Canada, on that storied and fabled symbol of Canadian national unity “The Canadian,” (which now avoids Montreal and only connects Toronto to Vancouver) I’d bought a brand new red notebook. Like those...
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Iguanas in Diapers
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Nancy Lyon
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United States
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Florida
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Key West
Ecstasy. Fantasy. Sensation. Elation. They sound like names of porno queens or massage oils, not cruise liners. But what did I know of these $275 million Swizzle Ships that were Las Vegas, La Grande Bouffe, and the Starship Enterprise all rolled...
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A Boney Tale: Neolithic Misadventures in Scotland
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Nancy Lyon
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United Kingdom
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Scottish Highlands
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Wick
Hagar's Lounge is the dive of all dives, a grotty, fag-stained basement pub in the Scottish Highland town that Robert Louis Stevenson described in 1868 as “one of the meanest of man's towns, on the baldest of God's bays.” The Vikings wouldn't bear...
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Mar Hall
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Nancy Lyon
In austere stony grandeur Mar Hall commands the 240-acre estate on the River Clyde where Mar castles have stood since the 14th century. Drifting mists from nearby Loch Lomond grace the Kilpatrick Hills, providing lots of Scottish atmosphere in which...
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Chateau Frontenac
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Nancy Lyon
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Canada
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Quebec
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Quebec City
Le Chateau Frontenac is the "World's Most Photographed Hotel." Or so it's been said by so many public relations and marketing heads that it must be true by now. I came to Quebec City with my Nikon N90 and my Minolta Dimage EX digital to add to the...
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Flirty Dancing
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Nancy Lyon
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Ireland
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Clare & Limerick
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Miltown Malbay
The legs in Dan O’Connell’s pub have danced a million miles. Around and around the floor battering out jigs and polkas, slides and mazurkas, swinging and stomping into heavenly raptures. In this public house in Knocknagree the dancers topping their...
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In the Valley of the Kong Longs
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Nancy Lyon
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Canada
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Alberta
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Drumheller
Godzilla was here in the flesh. I’ve got his teeth marks on a 75-million year-old souvenir to prove it. Well actually it was an Albertosaurus, the smaller Tyrannosauridae relative of the T-Rex, that attacked the poor vegetarian Hadrosaur whose chunk...
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Toronto: the Good City that would be Bad
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Nancy Lyon
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Canada
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Ontario
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Toronto
We couldn’t afford to see Toronto by rickshaw, so we night-prowled on foot, from the Sweet Sensation on Yonge Street, where Beginner’s Bondage Kits are a hot item, to The Vampire Sanctuary Sex Bar on Queen Street West and beyond, always making sure...
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Cinderella in Donald Trump's Manhattan
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Nancy Lyon
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United States
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New York State
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New York
I’m dead asleep on the red-eye special from Montreal to New York, when I hear a Jamaican voice lilting “Here’s Man-hat-tan!!!” I bolt up in my seat. It’s 5 a.m. - two hours before we’re due to arrive. Pitch black out there. And this is not JFK or La...
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The Bull Riders Prayer: Rodeo Night
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Nancy Lyon
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United States
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Wyoming
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Cody
It was nearing sundown in Cody, Wyoming when the short cowboy with the broken arm came moseying in my direction.“Say Ma'am, you look lost, ” he said tipping his dusty brown hat. Did I? It was hard to get lost on the main street that Buffalo Bill...
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