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When you travel or live abroad you do things that you wouldn’t normally do at home. You enjoy a beer on the Nile. You talk to people you’ve never met, maybe people from a place you’ve never heard of. You soak up every experience, because that is what you are there to do, you are [...]
Christmas is a holiday with deep roots in Western culture, and some more recent inroads into others. Many of the Christmas traditions that have become central to the Christmas celebration have even older links to our pagan forebears. While Christmas is celebrated in many places across the world, either as a religious or a secular [...]
I was scrolling down my news feed on Facebook when I saw a photo my sister had posted. She was on vacation with her boyfriend at a beach house in North Carolina, and the scene was pretty flawless: Instantly, I was insanely jealous. I wanted to be at the beach house! I wanted a Corona [...]
This is how I turned up for my first day of fruit picking: In purple Capri pants, a black tank top, sunglasses and pigtail braids. The finishing touch was a trendy Billabong straw hat. Let’s just say the farmer wasn’t exactly impressed. Fruit picking in Australia is one of those things that backpackers do, so [...]
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