My hometown is not very big. It is considered a city but that’s for Portuguese standards. Usually there’s not much going on there that gets the rest of the country’s, or even its own inhabitants’, attention. Except for one thing: Carnaval. I think I could barely walk when my parents started dragging me to the [...]
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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 [...]
Autumn has arrived in full and has brought the rain with it. And that’s exactly what I had when I went to Vienna a couple of weeks ago: rain, lots and lots of rain. Because of that I had to change my plans in order to spend more time indoors than outdoors. Not a problem [...]
As you may have noticed, we love cemeteries here at Atlas Parasite. Well, another one of our less creepy, but definitely more nerdy, obsessions is libraries! And let me tell you, when I walked into the Amsterdam Public Library last month, I was totally, gleefully nerding out.
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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 [...]
Hey everyone it’s time for another installment of one my favorite games while traveling: grave hunting. If you don’t know what grave hunting is, there is a crash course in the intro of our previous post on Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. And I know it’s two days due because last Saturday was Halloween and [...]
American thanksgiving is something we should try to import to Europe instead of Halloween. True! Not only do you get to eat well and a lot (although according to the stereotypes, that’s not something to be surprised about) but you also get this long weekend to do whatever you want or go wherever you feel [...]
You might have heard of Lyon as the gastronomic capital of France, the second largest city in France, the home of the Olympique Lyonnais football club, which was undefeated for seven (!) straight years between 2002-2008…or maybe you haven’t even heard of it at all! You should only be really ashamed of this last option [...]
