I do not recommend arriving in Sydney early Sunday morning after a long long flight while the rest of the city is all hung over from the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (note: you should be there FOR Mardi Gras). So what do you want the most in that case? My answer is a shower, a [...]
Last month commemorated the 20 year anniversary of the televised kangaroo trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu on December 25, 1989… Merry Christmas! This was also my first winter back in Romania since leaving the country only a couple of weeks after that fateful day. Upon my return I was expecting to see [...]
Musée du Louvre
34 Rue du Louvre
75001 Paris, France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 20 58 24
Website: http://www.louvre.fr
Opening Hours: Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 9:00 – 18:00; Wednesdays, Fridays: 9:00-22:00; Tuesdays closed
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Wikipedia – Melpomene
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Ever felt like you were born in the wrong time? Like you should have been born much earlier so you could have been an explorer of new lands? But what about the guilt of invading the space of indigenous populations and the disasters that come as a result? Well luckily, you were born too late [...]
Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar
Avenida de Brasília
1400 Lisboa, Portugal
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Wikipedia – Portuguese Colonial War
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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 [...]
Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra
2, Place Yves Klein
06300 Nice, France
Phone: +33 (0)4 97 13 48 00
Website: http://www.bmvr-nice.com.fr
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Square Head Building by Sacha Sosno
Sacha Sosno
ART-COTE d’azur
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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 [...]
