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10 Hotels for Acting out your Favourite Movie

Because why not choose your next getaway so that life can be just like it is in the movies?! 1. James Bond & Octopussy’s Indian Island Palace Bond swam up to the floating palace disguised as a crocodile, but the Taj Lake Hotel conveniently welcomes its guests by boat in real life. The dreamy hotel…

The Couple that Wanders the Globe in Search of an Undiscovered Feast

February is the antsiest time of year. It’s the long, cold stretch between the holiday season and warm weather with Valentine’s Day as a half-hearted consellation. Around this time, I usually find myself staring distractedly out windows at the grey Parisian sky so often it becomes a hobby. Not this year! This year, I’m starting at the…

Bowling in Antarctica

As blizzards rage on in the darkest of winters at McMurdo Station, the isolated home base for American researchers on the southernmost continent of the planet, surrounded by snow-covered ice fields and an active volcano smoking in the background, one might wonder, what do they get up to in their downtime? Well today I learned there is…

Calling all Romantics Aboard the Orient Express, 1950

I love nothing more than digging up a new old photostory from the LIFE archives, especially one filled with romance and adventure in time for the weekend. Today, we’re going to hop aboard with photographer Jack Birns in 1950, on the legendary Simplon-Orient Express. which departed from London, travelled to Paris and Venice via the Simplon Tunnel through…

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

It’s a scene straight out of the Jungle Book, only accessible from the outside world by a narrow canal that weaves its way through a parting in the wild and tangled overgrowth, west of Myanmar’s Inle Lake… Lead image (c) James Charlick (c) PPana (c) J Charlick (c) Artano (c) A Thompson After an hour’s boat ride passing the bathing…

The Ultimate Gift for the Curious Traveler

Do you mind if I borrow you for a second? You see, this isn’t really a blog post for you, it’s more of a blog post for me, which I’m trying to pass off as a blog post but in fact, it’s really just an elaborately disguised Christmas gift hint for my family and friends. But since you’re here…

My Little Antique Town

There are some good things about growing up and becoming an adult, for instance, not missing out on historic little towns such as this because we’re too busy nagging our parents about when we’ll get to the water park. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania is the type of place my mother would have had to drag me…

This is Not Burning Man, These are the Soviet Bus Stops of Siberia

At first glance, I thought I was looking at one of this year’s fantastical desert sculptures debuted at the Burning Man Festival, but these oddball structures, seemingly plonked in the middle of nowhere, are in fact a product of none other than the former Soviet Union. When photographer Christopher Herwig told friends he was going to travel to…

The Other “Little” Venice built by Leonardo DaVinci

It’s both little and little-known compared to Venice and it’s Grand Canal but it has a very big name attached to it. The Port-Canal in Cesenatico has stayed off the tourist radar for many years, despite its similarities to Venice. The charming port on coast of the Adriatic Sea was drawn and designed by the renaissance…

This Empty Sicilian Town is Giving away Free Houses

There are records at Ellis Island in New York showing that between 1892 and 1924, the small Sicilian town of Gangi lost about 1,700 of its residents to the American dream. They abandoned their homes to board trans-Atlantic ocean liners, sold to the prospect of a better life by shipping agents pushing emigration in the region. Those…

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