Travel: Malvarina, Italy

Nestled in the hills of Italy two hours north of Rome is a bed and breakfast called Malvarina.

Near Assisi in the heart of Umbria, the old farm’s steep driveway winds through an olive grove where trees stand in neat rows that terrace along the hillside overlooking the city below.


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The countdown to V-Day: You don’t have to travel far to find romance

Every lovers’ season finds Boulder and surrounding communities throbbing for spring, and filled with diverse delights to pit your heartstrings against your purse-strings. Especially this year (dare we utter the dirty word “economy?”), it’s important to remember that you can’t have one without the other.


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Girl Trippin’

Next time you get the urge to plan a vacation, you may want to accidentally forget to invite your husband. If you have kids, forget to invite them, too.


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Holy city, enchanted land: Santiago de Compostela a Spanish treat

As a junior in college, I packed up my bags one September morning, stepped on a plane and said good-bye to everything I knew in life for a semester abroad in Spain.


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Travel: Surf and turf in Maui

Many people consider botanically lush, beach-filled Maui to be the best vacation island in Hawaii. Who can blame the fortunate tourists there for cozying up to its plentiful amusements? On this queen of the Hawaiian Islands, there’s no shore so lush and dramatic, yet totally comfortable, as four-mile-long Kaanapali Beach.


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The Springs Resort and Spa

Experience 23 natural soaking tubs of varying temperatures (89-110 degrees), perched among mineral rock formations and along a singing river in southern Colorado’s Pagosa Springs.


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