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Munich: Get Gussied Up

by zora on January 17, 2012

In the course of our European train jaunting, Peter and I spent all of six hours in Munich, but it yielded a post worth of ridiculous photos–and none of them even involved us being drunk and stupid in a beer garden. I think the Munich tourism board should be proud of that. Directly across the [...]

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Egypt: The Frickin’ Pyramids, and How to Help

by zora on December 26, 2011

Ah, the Pyramids. Last remaining wonder of the ancient world. Monumental tombs for the pharaohs. Engineering mystery. And pain in my ass. I’m not the only one to think this. Every tourist I’ve ever met in Egypt has looked shell-shocked when they mention their trip to the Pyramids. It shouldn’t be this way. Egypt’s second [...]

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Barcelona: Thanksgiving Dinner for 46

by zora on December 5, 2011

Every year since who knows when, our friend Frank Plant has hosted Franksgiving in his fantastically cool digs in Barcelona. By the time we got around to attending, it had already grown from a cozy meeting of close friends into an insane, overcrowded phenomenon, and shrunk back to a more manageable size. If you can’t [...]

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Ireland: On the Batter

by zora on November 28, 2011

(Sorry, no photos. As a setting, imagine any typical Irish pub you’ve been to. It turns out the ones outside of Ireland are actually pretty accurate.) Coming straight to Ireland from research for my book in Egypt, I was still in comparative-travel mode, and Ireland seemed at once totally unlike Egypt (green, for starters) and [...]

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