Dennis Lennox

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  Jun 1, 2025

  In Victoria, finding English quaintness amid renewed Canada-US tension

  The Canadian city of Victoria has been called more English than the English.

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  May 11, 2025

  Travel: Visiting Azerbaijan, a little-known country at the crossroads of everything 

  Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the first destination one considers when planning a trip.

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  Apr 20, 2025

  Travel: Italy’s Trento 5 centuries after the Counter-Reformation

  Trento, or Trent in English, could be mistaken for somewhere in the Austrian or Swiss Alps.

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  Apr 6, 2025

  Travel: Postcard from the Gulf of America

  By almost any American context, Galveston is an old city. Located about 52 miles from Houston, Galveston is a city and county on a 30-mile-long barrier island of the same name. Anyone who has ever taken a gulf cruise has probably come through the port.

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  Mar 23, 2025

  Travel: Visiting Turkey 1,700 years after the Nicene Creed was adopted

  It’s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed. Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of Christianity was adopted in Nicaea (present-day Iznik, Turkey). Back then, Iznik was an outpost of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great in what used to be called Asia Minor.

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  Mar 9, 2025

  Travel: Discovering America as she turns 250

  Maybe you’ve heard about America’s 250th birthday being in 2026.Officially, this is called a semiquincentennial.

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  Feb 9, 2025

  Travel: Postcard from Ottawa

  As capital cities go, the Canadian capital of Ottawa is a somewhat overlooked destination, even though it’s the fourth-largest city in the country.

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  Jan 26, 2025

  Travel: Discover Renaissance churches during an airport stay

  When planning to see the reopened Notre Dame Cathedral I also decided to spend a couple of nights at Charles de Gaulle Airport, as I had heard from a French friend of mine that a few local churches rivaled the art and architecture of notable churches in Paris.

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  Jan 12, 2025

  Travel: New Orleans is open as the state steps forward to keep visitors safe

  Is New Orleans safe? That was a question I kept asking myself over the course of four nights at a hotel just a short walk from the French Quarter.

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  Dec 29, 2024

  Travel: In Paris, Notre Dame is open but visiting may be a challenge

  Notre Dame is arguably the most important part of the City of Light. In the year before the 2019 fire, it was the most-visited place in all of France with 12 million visitors.