all photos: Elen Turner
San José, the capital of the perennially pretty Costa Rica, doesn’t have the greatest reputation among travellers. My own first impression was that it was overwhelmingly...
07/12/2017
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Iberia Destinations
You have to walk before you run. And before you fly, you have to dream of flying, to believe you can do it. And of course, to learn how...
06/12/2017
Pcess609
Quite a few countries across the world raise national revenue with a value-added tax on goods and services, including Spain and the rest of the European Union. The VAT...
01/12/2017
Up north, above the land of flamenco and bullfights, lies green Spain, a land of rolling, forested hills and mountains, splendidly craggy ocean coasts, and a cuisine especially packed...
30/11/2017
Ioana Catalina E
Few other forms of dance and music in the world represent Latino culture today like salsa, and few other places in the world are as fantastic to...
29/11/2017
Joachim Himmeröder
Next door to Morocco, Algeria is very much off the beaten path, touristically speaking, in large part because of its troubled past. But as this blog noted last...
28/11/2017
Yuryev Pavel
Down in the south of France, one of the signature features of Toulouse, the big, bustling capital of Languedoc, is a great canal that connects its Garonne River to...
24/11/2017
Brent Hofacker
Today is one of the United States' few annual holidays which most of its inhabitants regardless of origin, age, or creed cherish and when families reunite unlike any...
23/11/2017
Igor Shootov
Israel may be a small country, but outside its great metropoli Tel Aviv and Jerusalem there are many other marvelous corners to explore, as well, such as Masada, the biblical...
22/11/2017
Both icons of world art, but certainly not two you would automatically associate with each other, right? Spaniard Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most reknowned artist of the 20th century,...
20/11/2017
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