Located in the north central portion of the state, Mountain Home sits along the border with Missouri to its north and is the county seat of Baxter County. With about 40,000 residents, it’s more of a town than it is a city. It’s conveniently located amidst some of the region’s most amazing natural beauty, which …
This little town in New Haven County is on the banks of two important rivers, the Housatonic and the Naugatuck. Tracked by the Naugatuck River’s Ansonia-Derby-Shelton Expressway, Seymour has a small but animated downtown, with independent shops and a retro cinema playing classic movies. There’s a historical society in Seymour putting on edifying events, and …
The administrative centre for the City of Latrobe in Gippsland mixes vast industry with the serene natural beauty of lakes, nature-rich bushland and the humid forests of the Strzelecki Ranges. This is Victoria‘s main energy production centre, home to the largest open-cut coalmines in Australia, accompanied by the cooling towers and stacks of coal-fired power …
As it meanders across Australia’s inland plains the Murray River is the natural boundary between the states of Victoria and New South Wales. One city on the north bank is Albury, which forms a cross-river conurbation with its twin, Wodonga, on the Victoria side. Albury grew up as a transport hub, at the point where …
In the town of Stonington you’ll need to divide your time between two old maritime settlements, both charming and brimming with history. Huddled onto a narrow peninsula, and still home to a small commercial fishing fleet, Stonington Borough will win your heart with its clapboard houses, local shops, old lighthouse and a museum at the …
The town of White Hall is located in Washington Township and Jefferson County Arkansas. A suburb of the larger city of Pine Bluff, at the time of the last census, the town had slightly more than 5,000 residents. Though it’s modest and full of small-town charm, it’s the county’s most rapidly developing town. From the …
This agreeable little town is between Bristol and New Britain in Hartford County. While Plainville isn’t a tourist hotspot, there’s a lot going on both in the town and close by. At the end of August Norton Park is the scene of a hot air balloon festival, a riot of colour that you have to …
This little town in Hartford County is on a bend in the Farmington River and takes its name from the River Avon in England. The land was first settled by Europeans as long ago as 1645, and was incorporated as a town in 1830. In the east rises the elongated mass of Talcott Mountain, belonging …
Backed by cotton and wheat fields, this mid-sized tourist resort on Turkey’s Aegean Coast takes its name from Didyma, an Ancient Greek sanctuary. Didyma has a 2,300-year-old Temple of Apollo in a fantastic state of preservation and linked to the ancient city of Miletus, a few to the north, by a “Sacred Way”. You don’t …
Tasmania’s northern second city is at the head of the long Tamar River estuary. Launceston has a few things you don’t come across very often, like an awesome river gorge a stone’s throw from the CBD, and a city park with an island inhabited by macaques. The Cataract Gorge can be traversed via a record-breaking …