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Greenland

What Walter Mitty Missed

By on April 17, 2014

A movie that is seemingly a 2-hour long advertisement for companies including Life Magazine and the dating website eHarmony, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” tells the sweet and…


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France

The Best Falafel in Paris

By on April 17, 2014

The land of meat and fish, baguettes and cheese, crepes and croissants – a vegans heaven right? Not. Trying to stick to a plant-based diet in France is like trying to…


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Croatia

Plitvice: Croatia’s Natural Paradise

By on April 13, 2014

Look left, look right, look up, look down – I can assure you that there is no direction you will look to in Croatia’s Plitvice National Park that is not…


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Scotland

Scotland Made Me Loony

By on April 12, 2014

I’ve always known Scottish people were crazy – but I only discovered just how crazy when I attended the annual Hogmanay Festival in Edinburgh. I soon became aware of…


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Ukraine

Radioactive Roadtrip: Keeping Calm in Chernobyl

By on April 11, 2014

 
It was the early hours of April 26th, 1986. The small city of Pripyat situated in what was then the Soviet Union had switched off their nuclear-power-run bedroom lights…