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Crossing the Peace Arch Border

Katrín Sif — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:39 +0000

I was in Vancouver for the weekend, compromising between American & Canadian Thanksgiving, my grandmothers’ 80th birthday, and Rememberance Day as reasons to take one trip for all of the reasons above. I dragged along my roommate Maya, and Misha, my brother from another (russian) mother. It was a short 3 day visit, but the time there felt [...]

American College Football

Katrín Sif — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:10:03 +0000

I attended my first college football game here at Cal (short for the University of California at Berkeley) where the California Golden Bears played the Oregon State Beavers in their second-to-lastlast home game. Unfortunately, it did not go so well, with their main quarterback suffering a serious fall (leading to a stretcher carry-out and a [...]

The giant of the skies

Tihomir Rangelov — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:37:32 +0000

Just over two years ago, at the end of October 2007 the brand new Airbus A380 made its maiden commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney. The flight was operated by one of the biggest airlines in the world, Singapore Airlines, and the aircraft was produced by the biggest airplane maker in the world, Airbus. That [...]

How can tourism improve the world?

Júlíana Björnsdóttir — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:58:38 +0000

Eight years ago I passed through the beautiful coastal city of Beirut in Lebanon. It was perhaps the most powerful experience of a city visit I have ever encountered in my short life. As we drove into the city, half-ruined apartment buildings seeminlgy one step away from total collapse were all around me. Occasionally we [...]

World’s weirdest hotels

Freyja Oddsdóttir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:02:04 +0000

Have you ever wanted to live with giraffes or sleep with the fish in the sea? Or do you simply wanna try something weird like sleeping in an open sewer or an escape pod? Now you can, because Dohop has found you the weirdest hotels in the world! Giraffe Manor in Langata, Kenya, is arranged so that roaming giraffes [...]

Packing the sensible way

Freyja Oddsdóttir — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:47:36 +0000

It has been said that the happiest traveller is the one that can fit his bag under a seat on the bus, or take it as hand luggage on a flight. You may not believe this is feasible… but most of us learn the hard way that this is not only true, but actually possible! Take a [...]

Packing the emotional way

Freyja Oddsdóttir — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:29 +0000

Are you about to embark on a long trip? Are you moving to another country? If you are, you may have started to feel the agony of deciding of what to take with you and what to leave behind… especially when you realize that you can only bring 20 kgs with you. Most of us [...]

Marin County, California

Katrín Sif — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:43:41 +0000

If you cross the Golden Gate Bridge, just north of San Francisco you will find Marin County, a beautiful, sparcely populated oasis of redwoods, beach and countryside. I roadtripped with a friend north up the 101, and then went west towards Muir Beach, until finally driving along the coast up to Stinson Beach. The drive [...]

Wellington in one day…on a budget!

Freyja Oddsdóttir — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:35:44 +0000

Should you find yourself with a day to spare in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, you should consider yourself lucky as there is plenty of things to do and see… and the best of all is that most of them are free! One of the coolest things about Wellington is the national museum, Te Papa. [...]

The Coffee-chase!

Júlíana Björnsdóttir — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:29 +0000

Last Friday morning was rather unusual for me, I found myself roaming around Kringlan, Iceland’s first shopping mall, and actually purchasing a couple of items. Kringlan is an excellent place to do your shopping when visiting Iceland during winter or on a rainy day. On this particular occasion though, my initial plan, to which I [...]