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Wanderlust Wednesday: July 28, 2010

Today, the best friend that I’ve made in Nice is leaving to return to England. It seems these days like everyone is leaving Nice to return to university or to move onto their next destination. I expressed my sadness to a local, and they shrugged. It’s the essence of Nice, or any tourist town: people [...]

July 28, 2010 2 comments READ MORE →

Wanderlust Wednesday: July 14, 2010

Happy Bastille Day! If anyone was wondering why I wasn’t more bummed about missing out on burgers, fireworks and all that American independence jazz, it’s because I knew that just the French national holiday was just 10 days away. It celebrates the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution on July 14, 1789. Businesses [...]

July 14, 2010 0 comments READ MORE →

Hotel Aficionado: Westin Miyako Kyoto‎ Japan

During my two weeks in Japan, I spent one week in Tokyo and one week in Kyoto.  I had an amazing experience taking the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto even though I took the wrong train and lost my reserved seating having to sit in the smoking car all the way to Kyoto. Since I [...]

May 12, 2010 1 comment READ MORE →

The Texans in Tokyo

Written by DIWYY guest writer, Jenny Quattlebaum Knowles, who recently honeymooned in Japan in March 2010. “Why do you think I wouldn’t go to Tokyo? “Because you said you’d never go any other place on earth that they don’t speak English.” “Whatever. I’d go to Tokyo.” “Fine. Let’s do our honeymoon there.” That was the [...]

April 8, 2010 3 comments READ MORE →

Traveling Solo: Just Go

I’m a huge fan of traveling solo. Sometimes I think maybe there’s something wrong with me because of it. I worry that it makes me anti-social or perhaps a control freak like I have to do it my way or no way. I admit that some of this may be true. I want to be [...]

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