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Not your padre’s Colombia
Not your padre’s Colombia

What’s the first thing you think of when I say Colombia? Cocaine? Pablo Escobar? Narcos? FARC? Terrorism? That’s fair. But what if I told you everything you thought you knew about the country is wrong?

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After the flood: 72 hours in Venice
After the flood: 72 hours in Venice

We arrived in Venice just hours after the second-worst flood ever recorded. While our experience may not have been typical, it was very real—and also surprisingly great.

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Meet the Oktoberfesters

Close encounters of the German kind at the world’s biggest beer fest—from pseudo cocaine users, to a very generous dessert dealer, and gossiping without words.

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Gemütlichkeit all year long

October 15, 2019

The Danish concept of hygge has gotten a lot of attention recently, but I didn’t fully understand what it meant until I experienced the German version—four different times.

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In Europe, Germany, Travel Tales Tags re-do, culture, holiday, Christmas, Oktoberfest
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