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Off the Beaten Path: Exploring Outside The City of Rio de Janeiro

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Often when people think of Brazil, their first thoughts are of Rio de Janeiro and its beaches. But to those tired of what Rio, or just wishing to skip the hype of the big city, fear not for there are [...]

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Friday Postcards: Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan

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 a [...]

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A New Zealand Bucket List for Twenty-Somethings

Today’s guest post was contributed by Michelle Ray of Wander There. I’ve been spending much of my free Snowpocalypse time researching New Zealand so I really enjoyed reading about the highlights of Michelle’s trip to the South Island. It definitely gave me some new ideas for my own bucket list: There’s something alluring about an island [...]

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Bombs Over Belgrade

If I were to sum up Belgrade in one word, it would be “gritty.” After an amazing couple of weeks in elegant Bosnia and relaxing Montenegro it was a shock to the system to be dropped in the center of hot, urban Belgrade. Also a shock: I’d encountered my fair share of bombed out buildings in Bosnia, and [...]

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Friday Postcard: Colosseum Cat

The Colosseum was full of feral cats. I’m a sucker for puppies and kitties so I of course took a bunch of pictures. I didn’t think much more of it until I got a request on flickr to add this photo to the group That Friendly Tabby Cat at the Colosseum. Apparently this gregorious little [...]

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