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What Paris Metro Workmen Found Sealed behind the Walls

When your walls start to look outdated, there’s always the option of just painting over them, which is a little bit like what the Parisian metro has done over the years to update its stations. When the old white tiling of yesteryear needed a revamp, they simply covered them up with more modern materials. A quick…

Living like a Castaway on the San Blas Islands

Our boat awaited us on the other side of the jungle. We didn’t know it yet, but the 4am wake-up call, the roller coaster ride through the Guna mountains and a thrashing from the sea on a tiny boat would be all worth it to reach the San Blas Islands… The dock consists of a few sticks and…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CLXXVII)

1. Arsenic Wafers, nibbled on by Victorian women to get a very pale skin tone Say the word arsenic and most people think “deadly poison.” Arsenic was the poison of choice for murderers up through the latter part of the nineteenth century, and it is still used for homicides up to the present time. It…

Meet the Islington Twins, Double the Dapper

If you happened to have lived in North London at any point between the early 1970s to this day, around the Islington & Highbury tube station specifically, there’s a good chance you might have seen these dapper chaps, Chet and Joe Okonkwo, a.k.a, the “Islington Twins”. Lead image (c) Janette Beckman For almost a decade in the…

Take an Eerie Tour of Greece’s Sinking Ghost Town

Ropoto was the perfect little Greek village that sunk. It was once a happy and peaceful place in central Greece, home to 300 families but today, it lies in ruin, a ghost town emptied of its residents who were raised in its charming village streets. In 2012, tragedy struck when a landslide destroyed Ropoto’s terrain, taking with…

A Walk in the Cloud Forest

Before my travel legs give in, just once in my life when someone asks me where I’m going on vacation, I think I’d like to say, “I’m going to take a walk in a cloud forest”. It has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it? An enchanting place where you can literally have your head in…

California Dreaming on the Last Hippie Houseboats

Hippies and houseboats; they seem to go together almost like wine and cheese. At least, they used to, especially in California in the 1960s when a mix of old beatniks and young hippies formed a community of whimsical water homes in the Bay Area… I found this photostory lurking in the depths of the LIFE archives, titled “Floating-Houses-California”…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CLXXI)

1. Brooklyn’s Hidden “Hole in the Wall” Restaurant Serving Up Home Cooked Caribbean when we write hole in the wall, we mean it literally. There’s no name, no sign, no hours, no menu, no door to walk through. Just a rectangular cutout from a storefront grate, just by the intersection of Kingston Avenue and St.…

Where the Statues of Paris were sent to Die

The stony gaze of the statue upon his executor says it all. Most of the bronze “men” that once watched over Parisian streets and public squares of the French Third Republic met a most undignified end many years ago, snatched from their pedestals and erased from the history books. During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CLXX)

1. Turtle Beach More than 250,000 olive ridley turtles on Playa Ostional to lay their eggs in a mass nesting known as arribada. Photo by Kent Gilbert, Corbis, found via Kateoplis. 2. A 360-Degree Bubble Lets You Ride Atop a Plane Imagine being able to, mid-flight, take an elevator or staircase up to the SkyDeck, a…

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