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Soul Searching in Soulac-sur-Mer
The coastal town of Soulac-sur-Mer in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France reminds me of the classic 1966 French film by Claude Lelouch, “Un Homme et Une Femme” (“A Man and A Woman“). The quaint town would have been the perfect getaway for the lovers, Anne and Jean-Louis, a widower and a widow. The town’s centerpiece…
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Along the Terrace of the Lions in Delos
Not far from the once-notorious glitz party island of Mykonos in Greece lies the uninhabited (since the 7th century AD) island of Delos. It is considered the most sacred island in the peninsula-archipelago as it is the mythical birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. You must arrive early for the short boat ride from Mykonos. Delos…
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An oTENTik Experience
After watching numerous videos on YouTube about how beautiful the drive along the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper in Alberta, Canada, is, we finally got to experience it ourselves in early September 2014. No wonder it always comes up at the top of the list if you do a Google search for the “most…
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A Latin Odyssey
In early spring of this year, we embarked on a three-week trip across South America with a 10-hour flight from Los Angeles to Santiago, Chile. We flew via LATAM Airlines (a merger between Chile’s former national carrier, LAT, and Brazil’s TAM Linhas Aereas in 2012) — the time was mostly spent trying our best to…
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Where in the World is Meteora?
In modern-day Greece, where everything seems to look like the past, one place that has a futuristic name is Meteora. It’s a small town in the administrative region of Thessaly that’s about a five (5) hour bus ride from Athens, including a 30-minute break for refreshments in a restaurant called ‘Makadonia‘ after the first 2-hour…