Exploring the Asian Side of Istanbul The Sultanahmet Mosque is beautiful, and the view from the Galata Tower at sunset is without doubt one of the tourists highlights of any trip to Istanbul. Just sticking to these well-trodden areas, though, would be missing on an important piece of Istanbul: the Asian side. Anadolu is Europe’s […]
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Edinburgh is a proudly hip city, where everything is small, and cute and necessarily unique: things are hand-woven or hand-written or hand-made, arts & crafts are one-of-a-kind, and if it’s not labelled “organic” or “fair trade” or “ethically local-source” or basically any trendy modern adjective that tends to attract upper-middle-class hipsters, it won’t exist. It
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The tiny country of Liechtenstein is squeezed into alpine terrain between Switzerland and Austria. Technically a Principality, Liechtenstein is only about 25 km long by 13 km wide. But it holds a lengthy history. Its 16th-century castle, Vaduz Castle, is a landmark of the Principality and residence of the Princely family. For this reason, it
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Bicycles are one of the central aspects of life in Amsterdam, and yet very few tourists seem to make it one of the main parts of their visit to the capital of the Netherlands. Staying with a local friend on my last trip, all of the best stories of his adventures in Amsterdam involved
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There is no such thing as “small” in Budapest. Every detail is part of a grander scheme, every building is grandiose, every lane proudly clean, every stone and brick an impeccable piece of ever-evolving neoclassical renovation. There are no nooks or crannies. Its central downtown is made up of row after row of elaborately gothic
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The basement of Belgrade’s G Hostel was dingy, cold, and walled by cement and rough plaster. The beer pong table was lit up with lasers and black lights. We passed it and found a room the size of a solitary confinement cell, maybe six feet by 10, where on ratty futons sprawled two sunken-eyed boys
What It Costs: Travel in Istanbul Istanbul is not the obvious budget travel destination it once was. Prices here can be equivalent to Western Europe for careless spenders, but a visit to Istanbul can also be done for much cheaper. As a major world city and with so many cheap connections on budget airline Pegasus,
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Underground Austria: A Visit to the Sewers of Vienna Austria-bound travelers may be forgiven for thinking that Salzburg and The Sound of Music are the be-all and end-all in ‘Osterreich’ cinema tourism. Frolicking in the lively hills of the Austrian Alps isn’t quite it, though. On the contrary, the ancient capital Vienna has its own
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Five days in, after another 4-hour stretch of walking over mountains on dusty roads with the occasional truck roaring past, I gave up. Having not accounted for how developed parts of Crete are and with a map unsuitable to planning an off-trail crossing of this southernmost island of Europe, I find myself facing failure before
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1. Everyone is Polylingual Their ads are mostly French; their radio mostly Luxembourgish; they all casually know German. Even the just name “Luxembourg” sounds like a conglomeration of other words smushed together: luxurious, emboldened, smorgasbord. (All of which, strangely, are perfect descriptors of this tiny European nation.) Needless to say, on top of that, everyone
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