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 [...]
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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Sometimes I think I might be getting too old for hostels (at this moment I have 28 rings on my trunk) but the fact is I’m not supernaturally rich so I still prefer to look for places where cheap and neat rhymes and it’s true. Also, once in a while, it’s nice to remember the [...]
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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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You will never go hungry on the streets of Amsterdam for lack of restaurants. It seems like every block has at least one. That is actually sometimes the problem. Too many options leads someone like me to start panicking and unable to make up her mind, especially if you are without a guidebook and have [...]
Meat lovers rejoice! If you are in Belgium, you can find delicious ribs within a 30 min train ride of just about anywhere. Amadeus: The Place for Ribs has two locations in Ghent, one in Brussels, and one in Antwerp.
