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Belgium is the size of Maryland and contains within it two countries that do not particularly like each other. To the north, Flanders: Dutch-speaking, economically…
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Buenos Aires doesn't ease you in. It absorbs you, neighborhood by neighborhood, until one morning you realize you've stopped looking at a map. We arrived…
The American South carries a history that shouldn't be forgotten. It happened. We can't erase it. What we can do is preserve the beauty it…
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Stunning architecture and sculpted masterpieces, natural regional food and wine—Florence is sure to delight your perspective alongside your tastebuds. No wonder it's such a popular…
Continue reading → Travel Guide: How Florence Inspires a Higher Standard and ‘Slow Tourism’
Today the jewelry and souvenir shops lining the Ponte Vecchio—in medieval stalls once occupied by tanners, farmers, and butchers—are closed until further notice. For several…
Vatican City contains the greatest concentration of human artistic achievement on earth. It also contains, on any given morning, thirty thousand other people who know…
Vatican City is the world's smallest country — an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome, home to the Pope, the Catholic Church's central administration, and…
Somewhere between Valencia and Barcelona, my phone rang a few times. I let it go. But it wasn't the routine coordination I had assumed. We…
Continue reading → Barcelona: Arriving Into Catalonia’s Crisis
A WEEK OF SOCCER & WEST NETHERLANDS FROM DEN HAAG A Dutch Football Camp Leads our Family to Experience West Netherlands through this Progressive International…
Diversity is embraced here. “Weird” might be the Dutch norm due to pragmatic tolerance. This trade city has been accustomed to associating with different cultures, ideologies…