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Nick Ball
Lanzarote, Spain
The small Canary Island of Lanzarote is best known as a bucket and spade beach destination. Attracting over 1.5 million tourists every year. But away from the coast lies some of most stunning and surreal scenery on the planet, as around one quarter of Lanzarote´s total land surface resembles the surface of [...]
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Aleksandra Kurczynska
Ghent, Belgium
Have you already seen Gravensteen? Have you taken photos from Sint Michielsbrug? Have you rested on Graslei when drinking a magic bottle of wine? Have you done something even more ‘Gents’? No matter whether your answer would be yes or no, may I suggest you something different…because: why not ?
The difference I’m [...]
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Lyndsey Biddle
Kolkata, India
Harbin, China is the fourth largest Winter Wonderland in the world. That being so, you may ask yourself, why not visit one of the other three larger ones instead? One very good reason for choosing Harbin is that you also get two countries in one, as Harbin is also referred [...]
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Sofia Kasviki
Athens, Greece
In Greece you will not find any shiny contests like the Oscars, so actors learn to be more humble. They still aim high but they don’t turn out to be conceited…or at least some of them! So, if you are a Greek artist and you like performing at the theater, your dream [...]
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Chiara Atik
New York, New York
Where do race, history, and trans-fat all come together in the most happy of marriages? Ben’s Chili Bowl, located right off the U Street/Cardozo in Washington D.C.
Ben’s Chili Bowl has been around for 50 eventful, fraught years. It was opened in 1958, when the (relatively Southern) capitol was still (relatively) [...]
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Chiara Atik
New York, New York
Growing up, I had one dream. I wanted to go to Salzburg.
Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say that I wanted to wake up one morning as the 8th Von Trapp child in “The Sound Of Music”, and it would preferably be the morning that Maria takes [...]
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Maria Romano
San Diego, California
The Victor Emanuel Monument (“Il Vittoriano”) is impossible to miss on a visit to Rome. It is a 230 foot tall temple-like monstrosity in white travertine with massive corinthian columns and a million statues situated in the middle of Piazza Venezia, one of Rome’s main piazze. The monument is dedicated [...]
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Jessica Goebel
Denver, Colorado
Though San Diego is more often noted for its world-class zoo and scenic beaches, the city also plays host to one of pop culture’s weirdest, wildest events: Comic-Con. What started in the 70s with a modest gathering of comic book fans has ballooned into a colossal affair attracting proud geeks from [...]
Most people think about the house of gods when they hear olimpos,
knowing little about the actual ancient settlement located in antalya,turkey.
Olimpos is one of the cities on the once-upon-a-time Lykian trade route and present-day trekking route(link).
Lykians were the first ones to use money as we know it. After inventing the mother of all problems, of [...]
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Maria Romano
San Diego, California
Amsterdam: beautiful row houses, Anne Frank, canals, Rijksmuseum, marijuana. You know you thought of it too. As much as Amsterdam has to offer in the way of high art and culture, the “drug tourism” associated with the famously liberal city is omnipresent. Cannabis use and sale is tolerated in the Netherlands [...]
