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November 7, 2023 Natchez is named after the Indian tribe that lived in the area, when French settlers arrived and established the then village on a bluff overlooking the river. Because of its location it prospered and was occupied, by the Spanish and British. Land grants to British soldiers led to plantations being established and
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November 8, 2023 The main objective of the day is to explore Rosedown Plantation, which is one of he South’s most intact manor homes, and gardens. The estate encompasses 374 acres that once and once was 3500 acres that sustained cotton, pastureland, stables and orchards that was worked by 250 enslaved Africans who lived on
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November 9, 2023 We woke up docked in Baton Rouge and had two excursions planned for the day. The first involves taking a bus to the Atchafalaya Basin to board a boat to explore North America’s largest river swamp ecosystem. This section of the swamp was once a dense cypress tree forest that was harvested
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November 9, 2023 We woke up in Darrow tied up to the levee in the heart of sugar cane country on the Mississippi. We visited two plantation houses, that headquartered huge sugar plantation, the first is Houmas House and Gardens, which was walking distance from our boat. The property covers 38 acres and was the
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November 11, 2023 We woke up in New Orleans and after breakfast its time to disembark from the Mississippi Viking, which was a very comfortable and well run river boat. Our luggage has been transferred to our hotel the Monteleone in the French Quarter. We head from the boat to the Historic New Orleans Collection.
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November 12, 2023 We spent our last day in New Orleans touring the expanded National World War II Museum. We had visited what was then the D-Day Museum 20 years ago and what an incredible change from one small building. Today the Museum consists of a 7 building campus, with 5 main exhibit buildings with
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October 28, 2023 The travelling threesome is off on another adventure, Joyce and Gil, joined by Marilyn Faulkner went to Portugal. We started our journey from Savannah, GA, on the 27th of October with a flight to Newark and then onward to Lisbon Portugal. We were met by our driver, Carlos, who took care of
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September 29, 2023 Our first day touring was actually a half day visit to the near by winery and vineyard Sentidos (senses in Portuguese). We are met by Charlotte Toubro, co-owners who with her husband Beat Budmann, resurrected and developed the property. Charlotte is from Denmark and Beat is from Switzerland and during a holiday
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October 30, 2023 After breakfast we met our guide, Ernesto, and our driver for the days excursion that will take us west stopping first at the village of Silves. Silves is the ancient capital of the Algarve region and the site of a very impressive castle that was built by the Moors when they controlled
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October 1, 2023 Sunday morning we were picked up by our driver for a short drive to the village of Faro, where the Tertulia restaurant is located and we meet Chef Suzanna Santos. Suzanna is a delightful young lady from Brazil who will teach us how to prepare a traditional seafood dish Cataplana, which will
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