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Category Archive: Travel Blog

Sunday Spotlight: Golden Macau

Macau is a culturally and historically rich city that is too often known for just its casinos. However, there are plenty of other reasons to visit this peninsula and its islands. After 400 years under Portuguese rule, the city is now an eclectic, colorful combination of both East and West. The following photos center on the bright golden hues Edna found in Macau.

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Photo Friday #58: Hamilton Island Sunrise

A few weeks ago we wrote about how much we have started appreciating a beautiful sky and appropriately this week’s #FriFotos theme is Clouds. We dug into our collection and found this beautiful photo of a sunrise over Hamilton Island – it doesn’t even need any words to describe it!

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The Singapore Flyer – A Better Place For A Singapore Sling

Many who visit Singapore head to the Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel for an iconic Singapore Sling. Bartender Ngiam Tong Boon developed the cherry-red cocktail here in 1915 and hordes of tourists arrive at the Raffles Hotel every day […]

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Sunday Spotlight: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Slovenia was the second country Lauren visited when she left to travel and within seconds of arriving she had fallen in love with its capital city Ljubljana. It fast became her favourite city in Europe and a year later Lauren still has not found one to match it.

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Photo Friday #57: Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park

Millennium Park in downtown Chicago was one of our favorite places in Chicago and the Crown Fountain was definitely a highlight which we sat and watched for several minutes.

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#rtwsoon Interview: Dave & Vicky – A Couple Travelers

One of the places in the world that we most want to visit is Japan and that’s why we’re extremely jealous of our latest #rtwsoon interviewees: Dave and Vicky of A Couple Travelers. They’re starting their adventure with two weeks […]

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The Most Unique Boutique Hotel In Singapore

“The Wanderlust Hotel, please”, we say to our taxi driver as we step out of the taxi stand at Singapore’s Changi Airport. He looks at us blankly before admitting that he has never heard of it before. Fortunately we have […]

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Sunday Spotlight: Taxis of Southeast Asia

Regardless of where we are in the world, the easiest way to get from here to there is often hailing a cab. What Greg Goodman of Adventures of a GoodMan find fascinating is just how different that simple act can look.

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