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Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ophelia's part in it starts out like a classic Hollywood movie.  So much so that I can imagine even the first sets of audiences in London wanting to yell out in frustration when one or the other doesn't profess their love for the other.  At least in a Hollywood love story we are usually rewarded in the end with the hero and heroine's embrace and love ever after.  But alas, this is a tragedy.

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One of the delights of our home on the Olympic Peninsula were the number of flowering plants the previous…

I'm not a farmer's daughter, but I did grow up on 40 acres in Virginia out in cattle country.  There's something about…

Although our tour included lunch later at a farmhouse turned tourist attraction we decided to find out what porchette was after our guide pointed out a little butcher shop.  He said the sandwiches were divine and a local specialty.  Pork?  How could we pass it up?

... continuing on our Istanbul to Barcelona cruise, we stop at the port for Roma:  Civitavecchia.  Although there is a tremendous amount of history tied to this port most cruisers disembark for transportation to visit Roma or other Lazio regional destinations.