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From Rio Tejo to Rio Duoro: Bank Holiday Weekend in Portugal
Did we make a trip back to San Francisco, CA and not tell anyone? Nope, look again. It’s not the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, it’s Pont 25 de Abril (celebrating the…
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Drinking Bordeaux…in Bordeaux
Having spent last month tasting wines of the New World (South Africa), we thought it would be fun to take a little wine trip to the Old World, that is, to the world-renowned…
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Viva La Barcelona!
Ahhh, Barcelona– the land of Gaudi, tapas, fashion, Barca FC, and home of the famous La Ramblas — is definitely one of Europe’s most visually stunning city sitting on the edge of the…
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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 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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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…
