For travelers - even independent and experienced ones who normally shun organized tours (like me) - these trips have many attractions.

When supplies are tight, buyers are forced to turn to the most expensive suppliers, which they would normally shun.

This tasty brew was ordered twice by a man who normally shuns mussels.

Bikers normally shunned the attention of law enforcement.

Its dual personality will delight those who normally shun beef palaces.

Even companies that normally shun self-laudatory environmental campaigns are making exceptions these days.

The event normally shuns politics and anything controversial.

Even some artists who normally shun the commerciality of art fairs come to Basel.

And many who normally shun the city shelters resorted to them.

The American mink normally shuns human settlement and confines itself to natural, or at least loosely managed, environs.