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Nancy Dorrans Articles 91

Nancy Dorrans is a professional travel expert and founded Adventure Marketplace in 2014.

Why Not Poland?

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: April 20, 2020In: Food & Travel, TravelNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans (originally published January 2020 in The West End News) If someone asked me a few months ago to tailor a trip to Poland, I would have asked… why Poland? However, this... Read more

The Birds and the Bees (and Native Plants) Beyond Maine… (Part II)

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: July 31, 2019In: UncategorizedNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans Almost twenty years ago my friend Roxanne and I traveled to Tobago and Trinidad for a tropical outdoor adventure. I wrote about the island of Tobago in an article from April... Read more

The Birds and the Bees (and Native Plants) of Maine and Beyond – Part 1

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: June 18, 2019In: Food & Travel, TravelNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans It should be obvious by now that flowers bring me joy. I’m hooked on gardening and my insatiable need to get my hands dirty and learn has led me to new friends I can identif... Read more

Vietnam & Cambodia Adventure Part 2

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: April 05, 2019In: Food & Travel, TravelNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans I had never been to Vietnam nor Cambodia, when a handful of friends asked if I would consider organizing an Adventure Marketplace tour to that area of the world. Thus began... Read more

Adventure Marketplace heads to Vietnam and Cambodia

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: March 25, 2019In: Featured, Food & Travel, Travel, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans I had never been to Vietnam nor Cambodia, yet a handful of friends asked if I would consider organizing an Adventure Marketplace tour to that area of the world. Honestly it... Read more

Stories of Arts and Crafts ‘From Away’

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: August 17, 2018In: Featured, Uncategorized1 Comment

By Nancy Dorrans Every work of art has a story: the story of the idea, the story of the artist, the story of the craft and supplies needed to create. Then there is the story of the work itse... Read more

Neighbors and Relations to the North

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: July 12, 2018In: Featured, Food & Travel, TravelNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans I could have been Canadian. My father’s parents came to Canada from Scotland and eventually ended up in Michigan. My mother’s mother, born Helen Pieper in Ontari... Read more

Maine Irish Heritage Center Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: June 05, 2018In: Neighborhood Notes1 Comment

By Nancy Dorrans Late on the morning of Friday… Late on the morning of Friday, May 25th, the 15th anniversary celebration of the Maine Irish Heritage Center began at the... Read more

Pedaling Portugal’s Pathways

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: June 05, 2018In: Featured, Food & Travel, TravelNo Comments

By Nancy Dorrans Cycling and educational adventure to Portugal… Invited on a travel industry cycling and educational adventure to Portugal, I was offered more than just a familiarizati... Read more

Tulip Mania

Posted By: Nancy Dorranson: May 07, 2018In: The Broader Picture, TravelNo Comments

A flower journey though Amsterdam … and beyond. By Nancy Dorrans In 1994 as a non-traditional college undergrad, I spent three months in the Netherlands as an InterFuture scholar, conducting... Read more

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