Category: TRAVEL with CURIOSITY
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Great Escapes: Quick, Easy, Affordable Little Getaways
Our traditions and holidays provide reassurance that whatever madness is currently abroad in the world, some things will roll around every year with comforting predictability. But living abroad, it hasn’t always been easy getting my hands on all the customary accoutrements. When I first moved to Seville more than two decades ago, Halloween decorations and Christmas…
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Singing in the Lifeboats
As the old saying goes, “There are only two seasons in Ireland: This winter and next winter.” Just days ago I was sitting in a Dublin pub, sipping a pint of stout and peering through a rain-streaked window at pedestrians scurrying through the icy downpour, chasing inside-out umbrellas, cursing in half a dozen languages. To…
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Travel with Curiosity
“Wherever you travel, travel with curiosity.” — Rick Steves If you’re like most Americans, you spend upwards of 72 hours a year planning vacations, but you rarely think about your ultimate bon voyage party. Some flamboyant souls have departed this world with true panache — notably the Vikings, the Egyptian pharaohs, and the empress entombed…