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"Stop it, you're giving me the blues." I don't remember the story that goes with that Dick Shawn punch line but I do know even if you're not a devotee of the blues (which I am not) visiting the Lafayette Tap Room in Buffalo, New York is a fun way to wind up a Saturday night.
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I love England but I don't drive while I'm there and don't think I ever would. No matter what my British acquaintances say, their traffic signs make no sense and the roads are all bendy and narrow which makes for great passenger side travelling (if you're with a good driver) but doesn't appeal to me all as a skill to learn while on holiday. Thus, when I visited Stonehenge I was the navigator and the designated "Stonehenge lookout" - which led to what will be a lifelong misunderstanding between me and the person who was driving. He thinks I was disappointed with Stonehenge, I wasn't disappointed at all - it is my all time favorite place made out of great big rocks, I just thought one would be able to spot it from the road.
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I'm always looking for pubs, restaurants, bars, people's houses - whatever you will - with steel tip darts but my new favorite place for watching football (when you watch soccer in a restaurant with a British flag on the front door, it's football) and playing darts totally snuck up on me. I had asked the concierge at a Cleveland hotel for the best scenic drive to Sandusky and she had guided me toward Rocky River Road. With Friday afternoon traffic to wade through The Pub almost slipped by us. We actually had to circle back and hunt for what we thought we saw but, boy howdy, are we glad we did. Now no matter where I'm travelling in the area, I find a reason to drop by, have an ale and beat my friend in darts.
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It was easier to spot Shakespeare's Restaurant & Pub on the rural landscape of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania than it was to pick out Stonehenge from the highway on my first visit to England. |
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There are - to my knowledge - two restaurants in downtown Sandusky, Ohio that serve dinner (other than the members only Sandusky Yacht Club); that one of the two should be a top notch French restaurant speaks of both the potential Sandusky has and the problems Sandusky faces.
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The Merrick Art Gallery - unlike many of the attractions in and around New
Brighton, Pennsylvania - keeps winter hours that make a visit easily accomplished even on a cold Sunday afternoon. |
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Beaver, Pennsylvania - sitting tidily between Rochester and Industry - resides in a zip code very close to Bill Bryson's "perfect" town but still in the same metaphorical state as Garrison Keillor's slightly off kilter Lake Woebegone. It is a friendly, enjoyable, seemingly prosperous burg but one wonders how it maintains
its momentum in the face of the challenges and downturns that have beset its faltering
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After discovering Wooden Angel on our first visit to Beaver, there was no way we were going to be in the area and not visit it again.
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| We hadd been to New Brighton before and now planned to revisit a bar that had been
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| Last fall on a visit to western Pennsylvania, I stopped by a restaurant/bar called Bad Frogs on my way to my motel. With a breathtaking view of the Ohio River (even if part of it
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