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Friends told me, ‘Watch out. They will rip you off.’ And I’ve never been the trusting kind. San Miguel, the city where I stayed, is situated by a port on the Mexican island of Cozumel. It has everything but a beach – and, in the unbearable heat of July, I...
Costa Rica – a country straight out of a storybook, a land filled with creatures that make eyes pop wide with excitement and rainforests that take your breath away. I traveled to this place with fourteen people whom I had not known a mere six weeks before, but a trip...
Lying on the hard floor of Ciampino Airport in Rome, wearing leggings, a maxi skirt, three shirts, a sweatshirt, and an eye mask, I couldn’t fathom how I ended up in this situation. I rolled over on the rigid ground to see Allie wearing two shirts over two maxi dresses,...
In Fez, all of the buildings, excluding the Kairaouine Mosque and University, have the same smooth, tan exteriors. Our tour guide, an average-sized Muslim man in a long brown-hooded robe called a djellaba, smokes five cigarettes over the course of our three-hour walk through the old city and begs our...
Flight VY6124 to Athens – delayed to EOD 1230. I sat on the hard, metal chairs at Gate 21 at Fiumicino Airport in Rome, munching on possibly the hundredth pizza slice I’d eaten in the past three days. My flight to Athens was delayed so I plugged in my headphones,...
[I composed this piece in August 2015, almost two years after having moved to Germany, a month after having finished my Master’s degree at the University of Bonn, and just days before moving back to my native United States. Once back stateside, I knew that when sharing the last few...
Whether you’ve been stuck in a car for six hours or at an airport because of countless delays, chances are, you are starving by the time you arrive in downtown Montreal for your weekend getaway. It’s late and you’re tired: the peanuts you packed as a travel snack kept you...
Hangzhou, West Lake. Bleachers set up by the waterfront. A stillness in the air before all the commotion of tourists and locals alike. She watches 『印象西湖』 with wide eyes. The entire “Impressions of West Lake” show is staged on a platform built on the surface of the water. The storyline...
Wanderlust- “a strong, irresistible impulse to rove or travel about” It can strike at any moment—you might be scrolling through Instagram, zoning out in lecture, eating dinner at the Ratty—and suddenly a strong urge overtakes you. All you want to do is pack your bag with some clothes, a toothbrush,...
Charida, a village in the Bagmundi, Purulia district, is the back of beyond of the back of beyond. The landscape shifts as villages fly past. Clouds of lotuses bloom in clear ponds, and in chimneys smoke the fresh bricks being toasted in their kilns. The egg devils and aubergine fritters...
