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    Travel-Carlisle Pennsylvania
    Muriel Smith
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 4 min

    Travel-Carlisle Pennsylvania

    I wrote this in 2017 when I was in my one-woman battle to have the Medal of Honor earned by Pvt. Thomas Fallon of Freehold during the...
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    Travel: The Sea of Galilee and St. Peter’s Fish
    Muriel Smith
    • Nov 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Travel: The Sea of Galilee and St. Peter’s Fish

    Visiting Israel to see the Christian sites must involve visiting the beautiful, serene, placid area around the Sea of Galilee where...
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    Travel to ... Israel
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel to ... Israel

    To visit Israel, the Holy Land and tour all the Biblical sites from the Sea of Galilee to Cana to Mount Tabor to Jerusalem, is...
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    Talking Turkey
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 25, 2021
    • 4 min

    Talking Turkey

    This story was originally posted in the Atlantic Highlands Herald, the nations first official online newspaper back in 2015 So, with a...
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    Travel | Too Good to Turn Down
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel | Too Good to Turn Down

    I wrote this story for the Atlantic Highlands Herald https://www.ahherald.com/ back in 2015 Photo: Courtesy of Jane Frotton It was just...
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    Relaxing on the Rhine: The End of a Wonderful Trip
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Relaxing on the Rhine: The End of a Wonderful Trip

    We were in Basel, Switzerland shortly after midnight on the last day aboard the Viking Sun and since our flight from the small airport...
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    Relaxing on the Rhine | Breisach
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Relaxing on the Rhine | Breisach

    We were up and had breakfast before the Viking Sun docked at Breisbach, Germany, and it was enjoyable up on the sun deck watching the...
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    Viking | Marksburg Castle
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Viking | Marksburg Castle

    The Viking Sun departed the pier at Cologne just after midnight, but not before the Viking folks brought a spectacular duo aboard for an...
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    I Love to Travel:  Cross Country by Train
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 7, 2021
    • 4 min

    I Love to Travel: Cross Country by Train

    Three Amtrak trains ... about four and a half days ... and a cost of under $300 if you don’t mind coach seating, or about $800 if you...
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    Ireland | Galway | Ashford Castle & Scones
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    Ireland | Galway | Ashford Castle & Scones

    So Galway was the last big city we visited on this wonderful trip to Ireland with a terrific group of folks from OLPH and St. Agnes...
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    A Trip Down Memory Lane
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 2, 2021
    • 5 min

    A Trip Down Memory Lane

    I published this a couple of years ago for the Atlantic Highlands Herald, but it was written from a lifetime of love and laughter, family...
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    Travel to Cobh Ireland
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 4 min

    Travel to Cobh Ireland

    The Irish treasure their long history over thousands of years and the country is dotted with castles, memorials, remains of castles,...
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    Relaxing on the Rhine:  Cologne Germany
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Relaxing on the Rhine: Cologne Germany

    I wrote this article for the Atlantic Highlands Herald back in 2015 after my terrific cruise on Viking cruise lines with my friend and...
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    Kissing the Blarney Stone
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Kissing the Blarney Stone

    So we climbed up Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney Castle. Those clever Irishmen! For 200 years they’ve been so coyly and sweetly...
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    Viking Cruise| Holland
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 25, 2021
    • 4 min

    Viking Cruise| Holland

    PHOTO: Courtesy of Jane Frotten While the initial cost of a Viking River cruise might seem a bit high, read the small print, and look...
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    Relaxing on the Rhine
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 24, 2021
    • 3 min

    Relaxing on the Rhine

    PHOTO: The Rhine River is alive with all manner of watercraft, from the large luxury long boats of Viking Cruise lines and equally long...
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    Belfast
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Belfast

    This is the second part of a series about my trip to Ireland that I wrote for the Atlantic Highlands Herald, the Nations first Official...
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    Ireland…it really is 40 shades of green!
    Muriel Smith
    • Sep 18, 2021
    • 5 min

    Ireland…it really is 40 shades of green!

    This is the first of a series of articles that I wrote for the Atlantic Highlands Herald, the nation’s first official online-only...
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    Mi Visita a Cuba
    Muriel Smith
    • Jul 20, 2021
    • 5 min

    Mi Visita a Cuba

    Without addressing the political side of it, the news out of Cuba is particularly distressing and so sad for me because of memories I...
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    Annapolis & the end of the line for American Cruise Lines
    Muriel Smith
    • Jun 21, 2021
    • 6 min

    Annapolis & the end of the line for American Cruise Lines

    The last town we visited on a six day American Cruise Lines (ACL) cruise on the Chesapeake Bay was Annapolis, the capital of Maryland,...
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