Throughout Oregon, the hamlet of ASHLAND , forty miles southeast of Grants Pass, is identified with William Shakespeare - a real anomaly among the rest of the timber and dairy-farming towns. Since 1945, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ...
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Tourists generally balk at pronouncing Zlatni pyas‚tsi, so most Bulgarians along the coast will understand if you say Goldstrand or GOLDEN SANDS instead. It's a polyglot place: of all the nationalities here, Germans predominate,...
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The old port of BALLINA , at the mouth of the Richmond River, experienced a short-lived goldrush in the 1880s, but it has few reminders of this era and is now mostly a holiday town, with some pleasant beaches and the opportunity to take river...
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