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Reading over my OneTravel blog posts from the past 12 months, I’d kinda blown away to see all the amazing adventures I went on and got to write about. Here’s a look back at a handful of my favorite reasons to hit the road in 2014. Here’s to more great travel in 2015!<\/p>\n
Tops Sightsand Sounds Around Muscle Shoals, Alabama<\/strong> 7 Sound Suggestions for Listening to Live Music in Louisiana <\/strong> Aberlour and the World\u2019s First Outdoor Whisky Art Gallery <\/strong> 6 Exceptional Museums in Basel<\/strong> Athens,Greece: Street Art City<\/strong> 5 Scan-tastic Reasons to Visit Sweden’s Koster Islands<\/strong> Reading over my OneTravel blog posts from the past 12 months, I’d kinda blown away to see all the amazing adventures I went on and got to write about. Here’s a look back at a handful of my favorite reasons to hit the road in 2014. Here’s to more great travel in 2015! Tops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896100,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880359\/revisions\/98896100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApril 5th <\/em>
\nNestled along the banks of the Tennessee River, the area of Muscle Shoals in northwest Alabama is a nature lover\u2019s dream. It\u2019s a music lover\u2019s dream too, where a small handful of recording studios have been responsible for some of the biggest hits in popular music over the past half century. Visitors to the area soon find out it\u2019s a fantastic place for fans of modern architecture, and historic buffs too.<\/p>\n
\nJuly 22nd<\/em>
\nThe state of Louisiana is home to a rich musical tradition. Blues, funk, jazz, zydeco, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, country \u2013 it\u2019s all-American music and every style has its roots in this corner of the world. Headed down to Dixie for a taste of live music but in a jam as to where you should go?<\/p>\n
\nAugust 7th <\/em>
\nBack in May, single malt whisky makers Aberlour launched the world\u2019s first outdoor whisky art gallery. Not so long after, I got the chance to check the exhibition when I paid a visit to the distillery. Set on an idyllic stretch of babbling brook winding its way to Aberlour\u2019s historic distillery, the exhibition aims to capture \u201cthe individual elements that together result in one of Scotland\u2019s most famous exports.\u201d And I reckon it certainly succeeds in doing so.<\/p>\n
\nJuly 10th \u00a0<\/em>
\nFor a city of only about 200,000 people, Basel boasts more museums than cities with more than ten times its population. From the Anatomical Museum of the University of Basel (which was founded by Professor Carl Jung \u2013 yes, the Carl Jung) to the Vitra Design Museum (which is actually just outside the city and across the border in Weil am Rhein, Germany), there\u2019s something for everyone.<\/p>\n
\nSeptember 30th<\/em>
\nAthens, Greece is probably best known for its ancient sites like the Acropolis and for being a starting point for any number of island hopping excursions. But there\u2019s another more current and vibrant reason to pay this age-old city a visit \u2013 it\u2019s home to one of Europe\u2019s most active street art scenes.<\/p>\n
\nOctober 10th <\/em>
\nBack at the onset of autumn I had the pleasure of visiting the Koster Islands, Sweden\u2019s most westerly populated (if only sparsely) islands. Just south of the Norwegian coast, it\u2019s a rugged and beautiful part of the world and a great place to \u201cget away from it all\u201d without having to give up on any creature comforts. The scenery is amazing, the food is phenomenal, the traditional fishing villages about as quaint as it gets, and the folks living there are incredibly friendly and down to earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"