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The Miami Herald this weekend turns its travel section over to a celebration of Jane Woodward, travel editor, who is looking back on a lifetime on the road. The impetus for this nostalgia piece is that she is right on the verge of visiting her 100th country, no small feat. Sure, there's a lot of "look where I've been" in this package, but I sorta liked this lead essay as a summing up of a traveler's life (so far). As travelers, we're visited as much by memories of where we've been as we are by dreams of where we'll go next.

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Happy Easter everyone. For anyone looking for some respite after a day of brunching and family, there are some good travel stories out there this weekend.

In the Washington Post, Canadian writer Erik Heinrich takes us to Kazakhstan, or more specifically the steppes of Central Asia's largest country, on horseback, where he spends time with the rugged cowboys that work this high country.

The Boston Globe as a dispatch from Joe Ray about an unusual surfing spot -- unusual, that is, against what we normally think about in terms of surfing: He hits the waves of France's Atlantic coast, known as the Côte Sauvage.

Tony Perrottet travels to southern Utah in the New York Times, where he hikes into Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Over at the LA Times, there's a good story from Amanda Jones, who takes the slow boat down the Peruvian Amazon.

Since it's April, why not a story about Paris? The Chicago Tribune's Josh Noel gets into the distinctions between the City of Light's Left Bank and Right Bank.

When a lot of people think of the Spanish island of Majorca, they think nonstop partying and lots of British and German tourists. It is that, of course, but there is a quieter side to the island as well, as Julie Myerson describes in the Financial Times.

Finally, the Wall Street Journal Europe's weekend edition has an interesting story from Stan Sesser about the specialty streets of Hanoi.

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Washington Post travel writer Scott Vogel pulls triple duty this weekend, producing the newspaper's "Europe 2009" package with three stories: from London, Florence and Berlin. The dispatch from Florence is the best of this bunch, the one from Berlin easily the worst, a tour through cliche as he moves from museum to museum to museum, focusing entirely on Berlin's troubled past without making much of an effort to link it to how this vibrant city lives today.

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Recently I marked my second anniversary of moving to Berlin. So I guess I'm particularly well-disposed to my adopted city at the moment, which is why I admired Nick Kulish's piece about literary and artistic Berlin in this weekend's New York Times.

Kulish, the Berlin bureau chief for the Times, knows the city well and I felt captured not only the odd, biting humor that Berliners are known for in Germany but also the fact that a very good case can be made for this formerly divided city being perhaps the most artistically vibrant and important in Europe.

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I don't think that the New York Times's TMagazine probably counts as a Sunday section, but the Spring 2009 edition has just been published and it amounts to some of the better travel reads you're going to find on the Internet these days.

I especially enjoyed John Wray's long piece from Liechtenstein, the best thing I found online this weekend. He captures the oddness of this little principality -- home to secretive banks, a thriving postal stamp industry and not much else -- wonderfully. Liechtenstein's smallness (it's the sixth smallest country in the world) in fact is a boon to travel there: Where else can you go from the rugged Alps to a lush valley in about, oh, 10 minutes? You can see a lot of diversity in a small space, and what Wray probably gets the most right is how the sheer size of this place shapes the way people there view the outside world. Reading the piece made be remember my time in Liechtenstein: An exhilarating bike ride I once took from the high alpine town of Malbun to Triesen, screaming downhill all the way and hardly touching my brakes, and the sound of cowbells clinking in the dark of night as I walked late between Liechtenstein's capital, Vaduz, and Schaan, its largest city (in Liechtenstein, it's nothing to walk between towns and cities).

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