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  • Hayman Island | Nancy Lyon | Australia | Great Barrier Reef | Hayman Island
    It’s the eighth wonder of the world, visible by astronauts even from the moon. And here I am upside down in November in the land down under, paddling around in it happy as a duck.I was half expecting great white Jaws and Jules Verne’s squids and...
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  • Niagara Falls' off-off Season | Nancy Lyon | Canada | Ontario | Niagra Falls
    “And all they ever found of him was a rib bone and a tattooed arm.” Niagara Falls newspaper clipping, 1920It’s a gummy grey day in Niagara Falls, New York. Across the Niagara River, on the Ontario side of the Niagara gorge, the towering Casino...
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  • Japan’s Kamikaze Kuisine | Nancy Lyon | Japan | Kanto | Tokyo
    Japanese maxim: “To throw away life, eat blowfish.” It’s the very definition of slime: an ugly, squat, fat, scaleless fish with sneering lips and gooey skin. Yet for millennia the deadly blowfish or puffer fish (genus Fugu and Sphoeroides) has been...
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  • Wide Right! Short Left! | Nancy Lyon | United Kingdom | Devon and Cornwall | Cornwall
    RIDDLE: Why did the Hertz car go back to the rental lot after two and a half weeks - with only 13 miles on it?ANSWER: The driver was afraid to drive on the left!Don't look at me. I didn't rent that car. It was my seat partner on the Air Canada...
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  • My Perfect Day in Montreal | Nancy Lyon | Canada | Quebec | Montreal
    La Canicule: Even English-speaking Montrealers agree that it sounds hotter in French, the heat wave that drenches our libidinous city in sensuality. This summer, as Picasso Erotique - a not-for-prudes exhibition of 350 of the lusty Spaniard's...
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  • Tunes from the Crypt: Haunted Edinburgh | Nancy Lyon | United Kingdom | Edinburgh Region | Edinburgh
    Edinburgh, Scotland. A drizzly Saturday night in February. The bar of Sandy Bell's traditional music pub. Just after paying for two bottles of brew. "Dearie, ye want tae pour yer drinks intae a glass," the tin whistle player advised us, taking the...
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  • A Créole Christmas | Nancy Lyon | Guadeloupe | Basse-Terre Region | Basse-Terre
    I’d promised myself an I-hate-Christmas getaway to a hot tropical island. No gaudy shopping malls. No merry muzak. No hysterical spending matches. No sad rehashings of Dysfunctional Christmas Pasts. But what’s this? Am I discovering that I actually...
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  • Reviews by Nancy Lyon: Page 3 of 3

    Park Hyatt, Tokyo | Nancy Lyon
    The Park Hyatt Tokyo - whose 50 square meter guestrooms are the largest in Tokyo (a city famous for its miniscule sleeping compartments) - was as serene as a Japanese tea ceremony. Its walls were paneled in rare water elm which had soaked in the...
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  • Culloden Hotel | Nancy Lyon
    The Culloden Hotel is a VIP Mecca of silk and crystal opulence, handsomely mixing Jacobean, Edwardian and medieval decor and lavish window dressings with chrome and zingy modern touches of chartreuse and pink. The Culloden Hotel is a dream-weaver...
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  • The Fitzwilliam | Nancy Lyon
    The Fitzwilliam, a stylish design hotel at the top of Grafton Street in the rambunctious heart of Dublin, provides a lavish retreat in an awesome location. As for star-studded conviviality, cuisine, perks and quirks - for business, leisure, romance...
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