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Budapest: Baths, Danube, and Goulash
Buda and Pest is divided by the River Danube, one of the longest rivers in Europe stretching from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. The former, Buda, is home to…
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Wien: Waltz, Mozart, and Coffeehouses
Since moving across the pond, Kenz and I have been diligent about working through our list of European capital cities; so far we’ve visited Paris, Madrid, Rome, and Moscow, to name a few.…
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A Day at Twickenham: Six Nations England Vs. Wales
One of my first observations in the U.K. was that the Brits are huge sports fans. Every Monday I somehow manage to get stuck in the kitchen surrounded by my colleagues who love…
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A Winter’s Weekend
If you follow the weather as religiously as the Brits do, and trust me the British love to talk about the weather, then you’ll know that us Londoner spent the first two weeks…
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A Quick Week in Saxony
This week I had the opportunity to visit Dresden on a work assignment for a few days. I chose to fly into Berlin, hire a car and drive the two hours on the…
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31 Places to Go in 2010
The New York Times published a feature on “31 Places to Go in 2010” with Sri Lanka taking the top prize as the #1 destination this year. Exciting! We’ve been to six places…
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Brgggggh…from Helsinki
A few months before his unexpected death in 2006, R.W. Apple Jr., the globe-trotter and political journalist for the NY Times, wrote a glowing article of Finnish capital, Helsinki. Of course, he wrote…
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Здравствуйте (Hello) from St. Petersburg!
Continuing our Russian adventure from Moscow, we boarded an overnight train from Leningrad Station to St. Petersburg in a four-berth coupe shared with two other strangers, both were Russian. There is common stereotype…
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Stranger(s) in Москва
Moscow…For many its name conjures images of the seat of power for the former Soviet Union and is a city synonymous with revolution, Lenin, the KGB, and the Cold War. For almost half…
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Christmas Market Crawling in Berlin
Berlin is the fourth major German city I’ve travelled to after Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich and from my perspective, the most different from its counterparts. This was Lily’s second visit to Berlin, but…
