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In SPAIN, Let Your FEELINGS Do The TALKING
Heading to Spain soon? The chances of coming across some common local expressions are inevitable as soaking oneself in the glorious Spanish sunshine.
The Spanish...
A Visual Guide To Learning French
Complain like the French, but first learn some phrases.The French are creatures obsessed with their food.
So much so that they invoke them comme d’hatibute...
THE ALPINE CURE
While the temptation of regenerative treatments flow abundantly in the Austrian Alps, visitors look the other way and seek out a new kind of...
MY VIENNESE RITUAL
In travel, there is foreignness and familiarity. It's like flipping a coin, you get one or the other. The most fascinating part? The sense...
ME Talk Pretty “SPANISH” One Day
If old dogs can learn new tricks, what are the chances of an aging Asian auntie learning to speak a foreign language?
By the time...
At HOME in VIENNA
Vienna was Freud's perfect place for his theories on the human psyche. Austria's pulsating capital can also be every traveler's waking dream and art...
I FOUND ESPAÑA
Throw a cat in the air, it will always land on its feet. But what happens when a cat lands in water? I’m that...
MALATE – Embracing Manila’s Soul
Love it or loathe it, Malate is a kind of place that lives up to its legendary reputation and the best way to know...
TRAVELING ABROAD? DO THIS!
Travel Hack 101 - know a city and make it fall in love with you.How to know a city? Let me count the ways.
There...
Mi costa – My Andalusia.
What can a landscape teach a traveler? In Andalusia, it’s as simple as living like a local and embracing its transportive landscape.
T
o live in...
The TALE of TWO QUINTAS
In Madeira, Quintas are becoming the new cultural touchstones and enduring icons that define Portuguese hospitality.
It was the best of times. I am traveling...
Luxe, Calme et Volupté the ELMAU WAY
Sights, sounds, the self and a schloss -l'Invitation au voyage in the snowy Bavarian Alps.
There are elephants in the room. I am of course...
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Hamburg - part grit and part chic, why this German city of the north keeps on surprising.
It was August, and the world smelled of roses – of dreams – of summer.When Ted Macauley first visited Hamburg in 1970, a decade had passed since the Beatles performed live in August...
There was nothing but the gentle lapping, splashing and sedating sound of the waves, and the occasional cry of a passing gaff-rigged motorboat or the crisp April zephyr blowing from the shore of Punta Engaño on the Island of Mactan, Cebu.
It’s ten o’clock in the morning at the Abacà...
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