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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Every time I go to New York, I try to do a few things I haven’t done before, whether it’s checking out a new neighborhood, a new kind of food, or a major tourist attraction. Katz’s Delicatessen I wrote about Katz a bit previously — but I just have to reiterate that this pastrami was
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Yesterday I went to watch the Boston Marathon. A few hours later, we were recovering from a devastating attack on our city. My friends, family, and I are fortunate to be uninjured. We were watching two miles away from the blasts in Copley Square. Boston: Home to the World’s Best Marathon Boston is a lot of
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Big news: after years of filling this blog with my iPhone photos, I’ve upgraded to my first DSLR! I am now the proud owner of a Nikon D5100 and a Tamron 17-50 lens, the latter a recommendation from my wonderful photographer friend Ed. The camera body retails for $496.95 without the kit lens (I bought it used “like new”
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My list of travel oversights in the US is long and extensive. Like many people, I’ve kept my travels to the outer corners of the country, with a special emphasis on the northeast and southwest. What about the great big expanse in between? Specifically, the midwestern states? Chicago is the shining jewel in its crown,
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Here’s something I’ve learned from a year and a half in the UK: if you open any guidebook about this nation and skip London, Edinburgh, and the most touristy sites, you’ll soon see tales woven of cities once dark and desolate, cities defined by their industries, where life was hard and cold and there wasn’t
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Long before arriving in Berlin, I knew it was a city for hipsters. But Berlin is a gargantuan place — several times the size of Paris. Just where was the hippest neighborhood of all? I started researching and saw people say that both Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg were very cool places to live. But they
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What took me so long? I’ve been living in Europe for the past year and a half, traveling to Europe for a decade before that, and I only just made it to the wonderful city of Berlin. The secret’s out. This place is BEYOND fabulous. I fell in love hard and fast with Berlin, and
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I’ve wanted to pay my respects at the World Trade Center Memorial since it opened, but it has eluded me up until now. Visiting requires booking a visitor pass in advance, and when I had tried, it had been sold out for weeks at a time. Maybe that was just because it was the summer,
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Arriving in Lyon, I only knew three things about the city: that it was the second-largest city in France after Paris (if you include the metro area), that it was France’s culinary capital, and that it was home to an amazing lights festival. Lyon’s Fete des Lumieres was one of the most spectacular things I’ve
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