Tag: travel guide
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Browsing Through Brussels
With Brussels being my first taste of Belgium, I was warned not to expect too much. “It’s too busy,” they would say. “Other cities are way prettier”. Well, they clearly didn’t see the same parts of the city that we did! To be fair, we were also visiting during the city-wide Christmas market, and the…
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What to Pack for Winter Travel
This page includes affiliate links. If you choose to buy through these links I may earn a small commission with no additional cost to you! When I first started traveling, I made the classic mistake of looking at the weather and deciding that I was from a much cooler, wetter climate and would be fine.…
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What to do in Cambridge, England
For a leisurely day trip out of London, look no farther than Cambridge, England. Just about an hour by train out of central London, Cambridge is most famous for its University, which was founded in 1209 and is the third-oldest continuously operating university in the world! The city has been built up around the university…
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Moving on from Milan
While I try to experience traveling and new locations with a positive attitude, I have to say the my experience in Milan was a rare miss for me. Please do keep in mind that I visited this city nearly a decade ago, so things may have changed quite a bit since my last trip. Let’s…
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Munich Christmas Market Memories- A Travel Guide
Having had the singularly unfortunate luck to have last visited Munich smack in-between Oktoberfest and their advent markets, I was determined to experience at least one proper Christmas Market before leaving the city. It was kind of my white whale. Now, being as this visit to Munich was part of a larger, more complicated trip,…
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Making the Most of the Christmas Markets in Zurich, Switzerland
With only a limited amount of time in Zurich, a portion of which was dedicated to a lightning fast day trip over to Lichtenstein, we wanted to make sure we got the most out of Zurich’s famed Christmas markets- especially since our stay just happened to overlap with the opening day of most of the…
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Gift Ideas For The Traveler In Your Life
Happy Cyber Monday, y’all! With the holidays fast approaching, you may be wondering what to get for an avid traveler- or even a checklist to kick start your own adventures. With that in mind, I’ve compiled a list of what I consider the ultimate travel accessories. Make sure to take advantage of Black Friday- or…
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How To Avoid Bedbugs While Traveling
As an avid traveler who has visited over 30 countries in the past decade, I have only had the misfortune of encountering bed bugs once- and hopefully I haven’t just jinxed myself here. With the current uptick (ha) in news media regarding France’s so-called bed-bug crisis, I thought it would be handy to compile a…
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Fall Foliage Trip to Lake Minnewaska State Park
Minnewaska State Park Preserve is located just about a two-hour’s drive from Manhattan if the traffic’s on your side- and quite a bit longer if it’s not. Since we’d left bright and early, we thought we’d been able to dodge the worst of it when we came across a complete stand-still just about a mile…
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Visiting the Los Lagos Hot Spring at La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Being in the business of saying “yes” to new adventures while I’m traveling, I went on just about every optional activity offered on my G Adventures tour through Costa Rica. The first of these options was a visit to a nearby hot spring on our first night in La Fortuna. Since the town is located…