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Hotel Review: Hotel Las Brisas, A Piece of Paradise on Ibiza
The plane lowered over jewel-colored water and a stunning old town. I was finally in Ibiza. It was the first truly hot and sunny day I had experienced so far this year. As my taxi drove through windy roads and a lemon tree-filled landscape, I couldn’t help but feel giddy at the spirit of this…
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Life as of Late: Sponsored Travel, MBA Partner Life, and French Living
Hey readers, I have so much I want to share with you. Right now I’m sitting with my bare toes sunk into in our fleshly cut lawn. The sun is out in full force and I’m looking out into our garden that has since started to feel more and more like home. This small French…
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Hotel Review: Terminus Nord, A Colorful World of Culture in Paris’s 10th
My latest hotel hunting assignment took me to my favorite city in the world, Paris! After a phenomenal stay at 25 Hours Hotel Bikini in Berlin earlier this month, I was eager to stay at this anything-but-standard hotel chain’s newly opened location in the beating heart of the French capital: 25Hours Hotel Terminus Nord. As you…
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Berlin in Bloom: Germany’s Capital Through My Lens
Hey readers, Berlin has always been high on my travel list, but the timing to go never seemed right. The first few things that always came to mind — besides its undeniable place in history — were its gritty night life and alternative culture and art. This year as I started to look into design…
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25Hours Hotel Review: City Meets Jungle in West Berlin
Wild like the jungle, multifaceted like the city. After years of traveling and being away from home, I’ve come to love the vacation feeling of showing up in a entirely different environment, settling in, and playing local if even only for a few days or weeks. From Europe to Asia, I’ve been lucky to stay…
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Expat Life: 15 Truths About Living Abroad Long-Term
Hey readers. I want to get personal with you for a few minutes. Care to join? I always knew I wanted to live abroad, plain and simple. I had no idea how expat life would play out or what it would require of me, but I longed for it. Oddly enough, as a kid, I…
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36 Hours in Porto, Portugal
Hey readers! Almost exactly one month ago, I posted on Instagram Stories and asked my followers to choose my next trip in Europe. In an effort to create more useful travel content on this blog – and more engaging content at that! – I thought it would be a cool experiment to see if my audience…
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7 Things I’ve Learned About Loving a Belgian
Hey readers! I want to talk about love and transnational relationships. What do I know? I’ve been with a Belgian for eight years, married for almost five. After years of navigating our cultural differences, I’ve come to some general conclusions. Although these are my personal observations, my other foreign friends who also happen to love…
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15 Things I Would Tell My 23 Year Old Self Before Moving Abroad
The longer I live abroad the more I realize everything makes more sense with a bit of distance and time. When I boarded my flight to France in 2011, I was so ready to take on whatever was coming my way although I really didn’t have a clue as to what I was doing. With…
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7 Years of Gorgeous Globe and What’s Coming This Year
I’ve had a blog since before I could drive. Why does anyone blog? For me, the answer is the same today as it was then. I blog to share the world I’m living in in the hopes that someone, somewhere can relate. —— When I was fourteen, we finally got internet on our family computer. I…
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