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Go where the action isn’t in Europe

People all around the world just love Europe. With so many countries, and their individual styles and personalities, it's hard not to be drawn in. But, as in many places in the world, Europe is starting to creak with the sheer number of tourists annually - an impressive 6% growth in 2018 - and sometimes…

2019-08-020Comments

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A Japanese Pizza Toast Odyssey

As the world gets ever smaller, if we're smart we learn as much as we can. Travel is a huge component in this quest for knowledge and experience. And, in the most unusual places you will find situations and opportunities that you may not have expected. This article tells the story of a young man's…

2019-07-230Comments

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Many retired people still have trouble spending time their way

Often times, despite our good planning and best intentions, retirement doesn't often turn out to be the way that we had hoped. It turns out that in many situations, what we had planned is not what actually happens and subsequently we find ourselves with a level of disappointment in our retirement. Sometimes we find ourselves,…

2019-06-280Comments

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Brussels “sprouts” murals

Brussels is often thought of being nothing but muscles, chocolate, and the EU. But it is so much more. In addition to having a very diverse population, Belgium is also one of the most up-and-coming hip places in Europe. This article talks about just one aspect - Belgian love of murals and paintings on unloved…

2019-05-250Comments

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Pablo’s hippos

For some reason, the world is fascinated with Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord. He has not been on this Earth for quite a while, but he still leaves a legacy. This article describes a legacy that you would probably not have imagined In your wildest dreams, and it gets wilder the more you…

2019-05-140Comments

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Low Cost 747??

A new American carrier is challenging the low-cost model by operating a solely jumbo-jet fleet. Avatar Airlines hopes to revive waning interest in Boeing’s 747 by bringing it to the ultra-low-cost market. It's an interesting idea, as so many still-viable planes are retired to be scavenged or to be left to rot. Keep an eye on…

2019-04-280Comments

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St. Maarten

This article is about the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean. Saint Martin is an island split between the French collectivity of Saint-Martin and the Dutch territory of Sint Maarten (formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, but now a constituent state of the Kingdom of the Netherlands). It is one of the smallest land…

2019-04-230Comments

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Madrid – on the edge

Madrid on the edge - as in edgy. Alternative. Artistic. Explorative. Questioning. Vibrant. Liveable. New . . . and old. Get hip. Read more courtesy of Eye On Spain.

2019-04-200Comments

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Video: People apparently don’t want to live in these places. Why not?

Sometimes ideas don't always go as planned. This video will certainly underscore that thought. We may not necessarily understand the logic that went behind some of these ideas, but it's safe to say that the intended result was perhaps not what it was meant to be. The upside of this is that an intrepid individual…

2019-04-170Comments

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Travel services for women, by women

Wanderful operates a home-sharing network, and Wild Terrains and Purposeful Nomad run tours built around local culture and women-operated enterprises.

2019-03-290Comments

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Something different – the Ariège

Join Us In France features a number of delightful web and podcast-based features on the never-boring country of France. Here, they choose the route less traveled into the little-known department in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region.

2019-03-130Comments

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The 10 most comfortable and cheapest places to live

As we get older, and hopefully wiser, are eyes and ears open what it comes to discovering what makes us happy. And as the world gets smaller, some of those options which might have appeared completely insane just a few years ago, now are readily available. This video shows ten places that are inexpensive to…

2019-03-130Comments

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