Most visitors would never know it, but the Washington DC area is actually one of the best areas in the country for really authentic international cuisine. You name it, we’ve got it, from Bolivian to Chinese to Ethiopian, all fairly cheap and bringing total realness. From the make-up of downtown DC however, the city seems [...]
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Sometimes I feel like I am blind to DC. I travel all over the world and write about my adventures, but when it comes to my own hometown, the place where I actually LIVE, this blog is mostly silent. Which is pretty ridiculous considering it’s a major city for tourists and a pretty freaking awesome [...]
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Mike is in Amsterdam this week and it’s quite chilly. “I’m being punished,” he said, “for skipping winter for so many years. Now I have endless Winter.” In honor of that sorry situation here’s a frosty photo from Sam at Indefinite Adventure: Despite my love/hate relationship with Paris, on a grey winter’s day the French [...]
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I finally finished blogging about my last trip which means it’s time to get moving again. This summer is kind of a weird one for me. On the one hand it’s prime traveling season and I’ll take most any excuse to get out of the DC humidity. On the other, I’m getting married, for realsies, in [...]
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Wow, I have been writing about Italy forever, haven’t I? There is just so much to say and I could probably go on and on (particularly about food), but I think I’ve reached the end of my Italian musings for the time being. Which means it’s time for Best and Worst! Total Days: 15 Total [...]
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Of all the places I’ve visited in Italy, Milan may be my least favorite. It’s a very generic European big city: expensive, generic and really, really smoggy. Now if Milan were a city in any other country, I might have liked it more better. Coming off of a two week high in Rome and Bologna [...]
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Anyone else ready for it to be beach time yet? This gorgeous picture is from Kathryn of rtw Travel Guide. The photo is of “my “home” beach on the West Coast of the South Island, NZ (super rough sea and deserted beach).”
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Even though neither of us have even been to Bologna, Mike and I have long had it on our short list of places to seriously consider living in Europe (along with Rome of course). We had heard so many good things from friends who have visited and lived there. It did not disappoint, at all. [...]
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In which I prove that too much gelato is in fact a bad thing… (I was shocked too). When the Emilia-Romagna Tourism folks invited us to spend a day at Gelato University I was, as you can imagine, beside myself. I had no idea what Gelato University actually was but I knew if it involved [...]
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