Some 42km south of Retalhuleu, a paved road runs to the beach at CHAMPERICO , which, though it certainly doesn't feel like it, is the country's third port. The town enjoyed a brief period of prosperity when it was connected to Quetzaltenango by...
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The compact communities of GRASS VALLEY and NEVADA CITY , four miles apart in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, were the most prosperous and substantial of the gold mining towns. Since the 1960s, artists and craftspeople have settled in...
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A pretty old town of narrow lanes and unexpected open squares, AUXERRE stands on a hill a further 15km up the Yonne from Joigny. It looks its best seen from Pont Paul-Bert and the riverside quais , where houseboats and barges moor,...
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