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The key to a packing list for a day hiking trip: have everything you need; don't carry any weight you don't have to; and be ready if something doesn't go exactly according to plan.
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Best Travel Shoes for Women: Walking, Hiking, Comfort
Use our simple method to choose the best women's shoes for travel. Pick from three categories: comfortable shoes for hiking and walking, city shoes for days on your feet in town, and recovery shoes that give your feet a rest while taking you to dinner or the beach. All with comfort and packability in mind.
Great Food and Top Things to Do in Cáceres, Spain
Cáceres in Spain's sparsely populated Extremadura region combines the allure of a walled medieval city with the spark of outstanding food and restaurants inspired by the vast grazing lands and fine produce of the countryside.
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Top Things to Do in Jerez de la Frontera: Two Days
Top things to do in Jerez de la Frontera in two days. Discovering Spain's sherry wine center, equestrian school, and flamenco culture.
What to do in Mérida, Spain: Three Days of Roman History
It's a bit hard to imagine that in all the times we've been to Spain over the last nearly 50 years that we took that long to finally get to Mérida, in Extremadura. Especially because I'm sort of a Roman history geek and Mérida, by far, is the repository of the most spectacular ruins of the Roman Empire in Spain.