HANNIBAL might well have been just another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here. Although Hannibal does have...
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Lacking both the rural charms of Dorfgastein and the post-imperial splendours of Badgastein, BAD HOFGASTEIN is a predominantly modern spa resort fed by the waters piped down from the head of the valley, its clinic-like hotels grouped around a...
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SALISBURY , huddled below Wiltshire's chalky plain in the converging valleys of the Avon and Nadder, looks from a distance very much as it did when Constable painted his celebrated view of it from across the water meadows. Prosperous and well-kept,...
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