“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of ...
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Keeping these things into consideration can completely reshape a trip and significantly alter the outcome of a journey or beginning phases of a relocation to a foreign country. ...
“Body, remember not only how deeply you were loved… but also those desires that flashed openly in their eyes.” Continue Reading Bleak and Brine
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She opened both the freezer and the regular refrigerator doors. It was already smelling bad like a dead appliance. They were holes in the back of the top compartment as ...
Day Four
A visit to the tulip museum. It is the most innocuous of places yet all you can think about is sex and money. Continue Reading ...
This is a city with an infamous dark side, shadowy figures, hard-boiled noir, the Black Dahlia, the helter-skeleter of the Manson family killings…This is where “Reality TV” was born. This ...
They are tourists. Of a kind with money. How do I know? Wait… Continue Reading Roma Amor
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The Côte d’Azur was famously dubbed by Somerset Maugham “a sunny place for shady people”. Continue Reading Essay: Host or Hostage
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We were in Trieste, Italy, for a romantic weekend break and had arrived by train from Venice. However, the TV weather report consisted of an explosion of exclamation marks lacerating ...
Never did I realise that it was a journey of no return. Never did I realise that the trail I followed that day, on a sunny mid-autumn day in 2014, ...
The young men of Essaouira must strike a careful balance between these two things if they are to be successful in attracting Western women. The Essaouiris have learnt to be ...
Our gentle yoga teacher, a doe-eyed woman of maybe twenty-five, stands before us. She’s holding out her Affirmations and Positive Thinking collection of cards.
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A vignette that describes the transient nature of two travellers’ paths crossing in a small island. As the trip is coming to an end, the traveller, with the memories of ...
At 11.30am I was sent a booking confirmation for my two-night stay in Oxford. My bag in the car and the route roughly in my head; I drove away without ...
The first thing I wanted was to travel. Where, why or how didn’t matter. All that mattered was when, and when was always now.
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It was a hot day in Brooklyn. A Sunday afternoon, the parks were full. Where better to escape the crowds and the heat than shady Green-Wood cemetery with its vast ...
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t thought of how nice it would be, if I was here in this most romantic of cities with a love interest instead ...
From the dark days of almost daily violence to being named as the second safest city in the world by the United Nations in 2006, Belfast has come a ...
Some of the most extraordinary art in all of history has been created in and about New York City—so don’t miss your chance to be an eyewitness. Continue ...
