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How difficult could it be? All we wanted was a simple, intimate wedding in the US for thirty or so people and yet it proved a challenging task. Admittedly, we did decide to get married leaving ourselves only one month to make all the arrangements, which included flying various family members across the Atlantic from the UK.

“Hmm, you asked for it then,” I hear you say, but let’s look at the alternative. We could have got married in England (we


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Planning to move Stateside? Here's some info you'll be wanting to read before making your move!
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Part Two

So here’s Part Two of the countdown – my list of the top five things to do in St Louis:

5. Farmer’s market Soulard Market, 730 Carroll Street

No, not the middle classes paying £7.50 for half a pound of sausages and smugly ordering ostrich steaks. Instead, Amish stalls, Illinois tomatoes (these are fat, juicy and colourful and, to use a cliché, they really do taste like tomatoes used to), crusty bread, collard greens, spices, herbs, juicy tangerines, fresh vegetables, huge slabs


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Part One

Just a hundred years ago St Louis, in Missouri, was the fourth largest city in the United States of America. Handily placed on the banks of the Mississippi, the city hosted both the World Trade Fair and the third modern Olympic games in 1904. It was a major centre of trade and industry (which was still largely driven by water transport), and a hub of cross-country rail development as a result of the building of the impressive Eads bridge


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"Georgia's state motto should read: 'Georgia – where they put the "fun" in fundamentalism'. Be prepared to be called to prayer at the most bizarre moments. I found I couldn't even attend an amateur radio club meeting without the proceedings starting with the pledge of allegiance and then some prayer..." Alan takes a wry look at life in the Empire State of the South.
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