Earlier this year, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago and saw the city turn into one big green, drunken mass. Despite having lived in Chicago for over 20 years, we rarely participate in St. Patrick’s Day festivities and normally avoid the downtown area during that weekend altogether. So, when […]
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As we started to descend towards the Schiphol Airport, I was peeking through the plane window and could not hold my excitement: -Look!!! Tulips!!! The colorful strips of tulip fields started to appear out of nowhere and stretched to the horizon. On the train ride from the airport, we passed […]
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It was 11:30 am and I was in the office, finishing my morning tasks and wondering what I was going to do for lunch. It was a regular day as any other, except we had a 9 pm flight to Munich and after a 12-hour layover another flight to Muscat, […]
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Even before the pandemic, Europe had been seriously suffering from over-tourism with masses of tourists visiting the most popular destinations at rates not seen before. The pandemic did not change the status quo, and to some extent, even exacerbated the problem, causing people who skipped travel in the last 2-3 […]
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All the way back in 2009 we spent one day in Scotland and I have wanted to go back ever since. This was an impromptu trip to the U.K. brought about by a random airline price mistake – $250 for a nonstop roundtrip from Chicago to London in the spring. […]
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