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The Comeback: Birmingham

Posted by Intelligent Travel in Beyond the Guidebook on April 16, 2013
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Once a weed-filled lot, Railroad Park opened to the public in September 2010. (Photograph by Terry McCombs, Flickr)

Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his landmark “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” the once segregated Alabama city is reinventing itself for the new millennium.

Event-o-Rama: 12 Must-Dos in March

Posted by Intelligent Travel in Beyond the Guidebook on February 22, 2013
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Holi is also known as the Festival of Colors, for obvious reasons. (Photograph by Anurag Kumar, My Shot)

There are some amazing events on tap all over the world, all the time. Here’s a taste of what you can see and do in March…

Get the Heck Out of London

Posted by Intelligent Travel on July 25, 2012
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A view of Brighton from the Palace Pier. (Photograph by Elisa Condoluci, My Shot)

Olympics, Olympics, Olympics. With the Olympics coming up, the world’s abuzz about London. But sometimes you just want to get away from it all — especially when things are at their most frenetic.

Here are five fab getaways just hours from London (including the real Downton Abbey) by train.