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Greece

Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda) is a country in Southern Europe, on the southernmost tip of the Balkan peninsula, with extensive coastlines and islands in the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas. It shares borders in the north with Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It has an ancient culture that has had a significant influence on…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Hey “young old.” Our time is here!

Hey, you may not have heard of this, but this is the decade of the “young old” person. That likely constitutes many of us, so we should be excited! The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the decade of the yold, or the “young old”, as the Japanese call people aged between 65 and…

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10 helpful tips for riding in crowded rush hour Japanese trains

Japan’s trains can at times be some of the most crowded in the world. You may have even seen videos online of people being pushed into trains to be able to fit, and you probably thought, “No way!” However, it’s actually quite a common sight in the packed city of Tokyo! Although trains in the…

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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.

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Here’s how to know which airline fare you need

This is yet another treatise on how to find the best fares for your flights. Be aware that it is you versus supercomputers, which are used to map the routes and assign the costs. But don't despair, as there are online tools and services that make the job for you much easier. And as the…

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Mexico

Mexico (Spanish: México), is a fascinating country in North America, lying between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast. Its extensive coastlines of more than 10,000km include the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Mexico has…

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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.

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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…

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What to know before booking a trip with more than one layover

Inevitably, when you book flights looking for the absolute cheapest price, a layover is an inevitable component of that trip. Sometimes two or more. When booking flights, some of us have this tendency / paranoia about making sure that we get the best deal at the right time when we are sitting in front of…

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Balkans

The Balkans is a region that includes countries on the Balkan Peninsula in the southeast of Europe, including most of the former Yugoslavia. Countries Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Kosovo North Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Romania Serbia Turkey Slovenia is sometimes considered to be part of the Balkans, but it is increasingly being included in…

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