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Boogey Down in Beijing
Whether you’ve spent your day temple-hopping, hiking the Great Wall, scooting around a traditional courtyard hutong neighborhood in a rickshaw, or like this author, hunched at your desk making lesson plans, there are few things more refreshing than ending the day with a cold brew or two. Or three or four.
Skiing with my Sister in Soelden, Austria
Of all the ski towns I have been to, Soelden, Austria is my favorite. I’ve skied in Lake Tahoe and I’ve skied in Aspen, Vail, and Stowe. I have been to more ski towns than big cities. Soelden is such a ski town that in the middle of winter, visitors can ski in and ski out of most of the hotels.
Paris: The City of Love and Catcalls
Paris is widely known as the most romantic city in the world and I believe it. What could be more romantic than a friend, boyfriend, husband, etc. fighting off skeevy predators for the one he loves? While living and studying in Valencia, Spain this semester, I’ve had the opportunity to travel, for the first time, without my parents, chaperones, or restrictions
Surviving the South African Social Scene
It’s a Friday night in Grahamstown. You’re at Friar Tucks, the popular nightclub/bar. Locnville’s “6 Second Poison” blares from the speakers. Lights flash before your eyes. Broken glass surrounds your feet. You’re caught between mobs of people on the dance floor, and your clothes reek of beer and smoke. You push your way through the crowd, trying to get a drink. You head in the direction of the bar, where there’s a girl, smoking a cigarette and sipping a Savanna Light or Hunter’s Dry Cider
Croeso i Gymru – Welcome to Wales!
Earlier this year, I spent 5 months (January – June 2010) studying abroad at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales. I can honestly say that Cardiff is now my favorite city of any I have ever been: it is welcoming, friendly, lively, and somewhere where I feel totally at home. I think it’s a shame, really, that Cardiff tends not to rank too high up on most people’s lists of places they really want to visit (unless they’re massive Doctor Who and Torchwood fans, as I am
