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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I cannot stop raving about my South Africa road trip. This road trip along the Garden Route and Eastern Cape was, hands down, one of the best trips of my life. A lot of you have written me asking how you can do the same trip. You absolutely can. The great thing about this trip
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Getting things stolen sucks. But if you’re a traveler, it will most likely happen to you at some point or another. Here’s what to do if it happens to you. Hi Kate, I just wanted to send you a quick note while I am in London, although the weather is wonderful I have not been
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A lot of people I know have felt a strange sense of familiarity when visiting the Tuscan countryside for the first time. Was it from a movie, perhaps? A friend’s photos? More often than not, you’re probably recognizing Tuscany from iconic Renaissance paintings. The Medici, who ruled Florence during the Renaissance, were among the greatest
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