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  • Verona | Italy :: Casa De Romeo & Juliet1August 16, 2010

    Verona | Italy :: Casa De Romeo & Juliet

    Verona is a great side or day trip from Venice, if you have the time.  This quaint town is most famous as the setting for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.  Many people consider Verona a more relaxed and pleasant and come here to take a break from the hustle and bustle of Venice. Although fictional, the [...]

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  • Venice | Italy :: City On The Sea4August 12, 2010

    Venice | Italy :: City On The Sea

    Arriving in Venice, Italy  we were ready to explore the enchanting canals architecture and alleyways while slurping down spaghetti, espressos and gelato! A photographer’s paradise was discovered around each bend; each with more obscure plazas dotted with bougainvilleas on balconies. We could have spent an entire week roaming around Venice, the world’s only pedestrian city, [...]

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  • Taking Europe by Train :: A Eurail Story4August 9, 2010

    Taking Europe by Train :: A Eurail Story

    We absolutely LOVE train travel in Europe! If you are visiting the continent, you won’t get a true depiction of European lifestyle without taking at least one train journey.  A normal part of every European’s routine, train travel doesn’t have the typical stigma that most Americans think of when traveling without a car.  We are [...]

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  • Abel Tasman National Park | New Zealand :: Kayaking with Seals0May 31, 2010

    Abel Tasman National Park | New Zealand :: Kayaking with Seals

    The sole reason to visit Abel Tasman National Park, one of New Zealand’s smallest parks, is to kayak and camp on the secluded bays among playful seal pups and penguins. You bet we were excited.  We saw heaps of seals and pups, lazing and sunbathing on the rocks (they have the best life!), including one [...]

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  • Koh Tao | Thailand: A Diver’s Delight12November 29, 2009

    Koh Tao | Thailand: A Diver’s Delight

    Manali and I had an absolutely wonderful week in Koh Tao, all the while spending a good part of each day in the six we were there earning our Advance Open Water Diver certification. You can see more about our stay here, but I thought I would let the video do the talking for now [...]

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  • Beijing | China :: Hiking The Great Wall!10September 27, 2009

    Beijing | China :: Hiking The Great Wall!

    Listen up folks! If and when you come to China, you simply MUST see The Great Wall, all 8,851 km of it! Okay, not the whole thing! Dating back to the 5th Century BC, the 10 Kilometers that Manali and I hiked from Jinshanling to Simatai is definitely the most memorable thing we have experienced [...]

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