Looking to escape? Here are two recent trips local readers took to the Vienna and Ireland. Check them out, then find more reader travel inspiration at www.mercurynews ...

Done Hyderabad: Months before the SSC exam, Ayyalasomayajula Sri Ishita lost her father to renal failure. Yet, the teenager braved through this irreparable loss to score 92.8% in her class 10 ...

But it was the title track, Wish You Were Here, that was the most world-weary. The song and opens with the sound of a radio tuning away from the previous track (Have A Cigar), across a station ...