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Update and In Case You Missed it Links: February

Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

First a complaint: Winter really needs to get over itself. I’ve become narcissistically paranoid that I’m being punished for planning to skip winter next year by being forced to slog through the worst winter in DC history. If I never seen another snowflake again I wouldn’t mind a bit. Warmer weather is in my future [...]

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Friday Postcard: Prague, Czech Republic

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

Today’s postcard, an artistic picture of the Prague metro, was contributed by Joya Anthony of Be A Travel Bee. (Do you have a photo you’d like to see featured here? Email me at Steph@twenty-somethingtravel.com)

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How to Drink the Australian Way

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

If there is one thing I learned from my time in London, it’s how to drink like an Australian. For the rest of you here is Chris from the Aussie Nomad to fill you in: Australia is popular for a lot of things; kangaroo’s, Steve Irwin and that infamous phrase “Throw another shrimp on the [...]

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Win a $25 Gift Card From Hostel Dog

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

This week I am teaming up with awesome travel outfitter Hostel Dog to give one of you a $25 gift certificate to their online store. Hostel Dog makes sassy t-shirts for travelers. Check out “Krakow is the New Prague” and “RTW Long Haul” inspired by the cool kids on twitter. Here’s what you need to [...]

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Do the Thing that Scares You

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why so few people actually make their travel dreams reality. Anyone who is a frequent traveler knows the common refrain from others of “I wish I could do that!” To which I always answer that you can. For some reason people don’t seem to believe this. A lot [...]

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Keep up With me Around the Web

Posted on 21. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

Even though I claimed to be severely burned out at the beginning of this month, I seem to have been popping up all over the interwebs the past few weeks! I’ve been lending my guest post writing skills to quite a few interesting blogs lately, and I today I want to give everyone a chance [...]

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Friday Postcards: Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

Today I have two beautiful pictures for you, contributed by the brilliant former guest poster and frequent commenter Aelle. In her own words: They were both shot in the summer of 2006. One, in a very steep street of Ichgaya, a residential neigborhood in central Tokyo. The other, in Kyoto’s Nanzenji temple, at dawn, after [...]

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The Mapless Spanish Road Trip

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

Today’s guest post come from Katelyn Davis, who spent last semester studying in Alicante, Spain. She wrote about one of my favorite kinds of trips, the spur of the moment road trip: It was a typical Friday. Typical in the fact that I was studying in beautiful Alicante, Spain, a smallish beach town located right [...]

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Serbia in Pictures

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Steph.

So wow, I guess my post on Belgrade last week was kind of dark. Everything I wrote was genuine, but there were also a lot of things I saw in Serbia that were downright charming. Here are some of the neat things I saw there: The Cathedral of St. Sava. The Belgradians have been slowly [...]

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