I walked into Bologna and felt my heart swell with happiness. This was the city I loved so much — a part of Italy that is breathtakingly beautiful yet rough around the edges, home to some of Italy’s best food but still pretty cheap, cultural and enthralling and incredibly conveniently located — yet still off […]
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The best photos have everything to do with timing. Maybe it’s waiting for the precise moment for your subject to be in the perfect position; maybe it’s a case of waiting for the best lighting of the day. In this case, it was when a storm arrived. After four days of searing heat and bright
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Las Vegas has played such a big role in my early twenties. It’s where my initial travels (and adventures) as an adult began. But above all, these are the memories that I keep closest: Dressing Up and Taking a Limo to In & Out Burger Every time my friends and I go to Las Vegas,
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This edition of Ask Kate is about how to look good on the road without packing your entire bathroom cabinet. Hi Kate! I have a question for your Ask Kate series: as a woman constantly on the road, how do you maintain some sort of beauty routine? What are your beauty must-haves on the road?
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You can’t have a road trip without some weird stops along the way. On my Croatia road trip, it was Hum, “the smallest town in the world” (but probably not really); in Connecticut, it was the aptly named town of Mianus. But one of my all-time favorite road trip stops is a little whitewashed building
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Wow. My trip had only just begun, and Geneva was well on its way to being a complete and total disaster — but in typical fashion, it turned out amazingly! Geneva isn’t a typical city for backpackers to visit. For starters, it’s expensive. How expensive? 10 CHF ($10) for two coffees at an outdoor cafe; 16
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When I first read The Sun Also Rises, I was captivated by the Lost Generation — the American and British expats who lived on the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, creative types, who spent their days writing in cafes, their nights dancing in bars. Employment was nebulous at best, a necessity
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I’ve decided to make a number of changes on this site. A huge reason for that is my most recent South Africa trip. I’ve raved about this trip so much already, but it was more than a fun time — it showed me exactly the kind of work that I need to be doing, exactly
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In less than a week, I start my yearlong trip around the world. It’s time to wind down 1.5 years of living in the UK: one year in Chester and eight months in London. This was never my plan. I had always imagined the UK as a place that was nice, but cold and a
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