From: Michigan
About janeammeson: I am a freelance writer who specializes in travel, personalities and food. I write frequently for Northwest Airline's inflight magazine World Traveler, Chicago Life, AAA Home & Away, the Grand Rapids Press, the Times of Northwest Indiana. My food column appears weekly in the Herald Palladium.
Has lived in: Indiana
Seattle
Corpus Christi
Michigan
Tends to travel:
Solo, With a group, With my partner/spouse, With family, For business, For pleasure
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Arizona
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Bali, Indonesia
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Barcelona, Spain
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Beijing, China
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Bermuda
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia
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Brazil
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Brussels, Belgium
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Budapest, Hungary
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Chile
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Colombia
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Cuba
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Ecuador
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Egypt
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Greece
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Guatemala
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Hong Kong, China
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Ireland
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Madrid, Spain
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Malaysia
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Melbourne, Australia
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Milan, Italy
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Montreal, Quebec
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Morocco
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Nepal
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New Zealand
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Paris, France
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Peru
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Portugal
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Quebec City, Quebec
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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Shanghai, China
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Singapore
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South Africa
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St. Barthelemy
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Sydney, Australia
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Tanzania
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Tasmania, Australia
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Thailand
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Vienna, Austria
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| Destination Reviews |
“We’ll always have Paris,” Humphrey Bogart tells a tearful Ingrid Bergman at the end of the movie classic Casablanca. And indeed, Paris is often called the most romantic city in... More |
Tucked away beside the Clive steps, on the corner of King Charles Street and Horse Guards Road, the entrance to the Cabinet War Rooms is barely noticeable.
And that... More |
The lights from the streetlamps cast interesting shadows across the elaborate façade of Templo de San Diego, built in 1662, in a Spanish style characterized by elaborate... More |
Up in the hills of old Acapulco, away from the glittering hotel zone, along the winding narrow streets lined with flowering bougainvilleas, is the house of Dolores Olmedo.
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When I lived in Seattle, we would travel every Saturday to Pike Market, that sprawling conglomeration of shops, restaurants and seafood stalls that fronts the water’s edge of... More |
On a gloriously bright summer day, we board the Little Lady, one of many boats that travel through the heart of the Windy City on a journey up the Chicago River starting almost... More |
Behind me the tikki torches were being lit and the soft sounds of Caribbean style music mixed with the gentle lapping of the waves as they hit the sandy shores. Out on the dock... More |
The view of Old San Juan from the ramparts of San Cristobel Fort looking out over Calle de la Tanca which winds along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, past homes painted jelly... More |
Puerto Vallarta became famous when Liz Taylor and Richard Burton filmed “Night of the Iguana” here in 1963. There are still signs pointing to where the couple stayed during the... More |
There are no roads to the Bitter End, the sailing resort we stayed at on the small island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. We took two planes and a boat to get there... More |
Behind an open-air restaurant that contains two tables, Rafael Arnedes, a Haitian who describes himself as the head cook, gathers conch shells from the shallow turquoise waters of... More |
I love the bustling downtown of Willemstad, Curacao, with its pastel colored Dutch Colonial store fronts built in the late 1700s and whenever I visit the island, a haven for food... More |
The negotiations began as soon as the door to our room closed. Our children, who had been hesitant about leaving their friends behind over spring vacation, were suddenly... More |
Our trip began in St. Croix, the biggest of the American Virgin Islands, a paradise of palm trees, brightly colored bougainvillea and pink, green and yellow houses with wood... More |
St. Lucia, which is tucked way down in the Caribbean in the West Indies, is lush and verdant, its pitons (molten rock pushed upright through the earth’s surface), tropical... More |
My children and I have opted to view Cozumel, an island off the Yucatan Peninsula best known for its underwater diving and the quaint town of San Miquel which attracts 50 percent... More |
Tucked along at the southern end of the highway that connects Chetumal, the capitol of Quintana Roo and Cancun, it’s most famous city, are many special places—the type that stay... More |
Chichen Itza, one of the most magnificent of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan peninsula, is just several hours from Cancun, connected by a super highway that quickly takes me from that... More |
I’ve always loved the glittering city of Cancun with its rows of hotels, restaurants and attractions built upon a crescent shaped white sand beach and no matter how many times... More |
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