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Your one stop resource to find information on all the wonderful worldwide travel destinations. The best guide to give you company and add a magical touch to your travel.Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, North America, United States
It’s often called the Dark Ages, a time when barbarian hordes overran Rome and that great civilization’s art, culture, and learning disappeared. A time when there were no great achievements.

It’s a misnomer.

Rome

The travel guide with useful information, what to visit, where to stay, activities, maps on every neighborhood and their touristic references with images, museums, buying guide, and tips, among others.Filed under: Europe, FranceEarlier this week, two people entered a museum in Paris, used some kind of gas to neutralize the guards, and made off with a rhino horn from one of the stuffed animals on display. This was the fourth such robbery in Europe this year, as thieves look to sell

Travel Guide reflects upon the things that are cool about travel, what inspires us to travel, and what’s so inspiring about travel. It also provides a place for my musings about our own travels, destinations we visit, travel research and writing, the travel media and travel industry, and includes travel advice and insider tips.Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, Europe, United KingdomPeople often think Valentine’s Day is a modern invention, a diabolical conspiracy of florists and greeting card companies to suck money out of poor chumps who should be able to show their love without spending

Your one stop resource to find information on all the wonderful worldwide travel destinations. The best guide to give you company and add a magical touch to your travel.Filed under: Europe, Bulgaria, Budget Travel
The best part of expat life for me are the travel opportunities, especially when living in Turkey, conveniently located where Europe meets Asia. Expat travel takes on a new twist as you seek out the new and unfamiliar as in any new destination,

Your one stop resource to find information on all the wonderful worldwide travel destinations. The best guide to give you company and add a magical touch to your travel.Filed under: History, Learning, Europe, Italy
The Italian army gets a bad rap.

Sure, it made a poor showing in World War Two, but it was Italian Communist partisans who finally bagged Mussolini. Plus the Italians fought in one of the toughest fronts of the First World War, high

Your one stop resource to find information on all the wonderful worldwide travel destinations. The best guide to give you company and add a magical touch to your travel.Filed under: History, Learning, Europe, PolandDuring World War Two, German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved some 1,200 of his Jewish workers from extermination. His enamelware and munitions factories were considered vital for the German war effort and he claimed his workers all

Travel Guide reflects upon the things that are cool about travel, what inspires us to travel, and what’s so inspiring about travel. It also provides a place for my musings about our own travels, destinations we visit, travel research and writing, the travel media and travel industry, and includes travel advice and insider tips.Filed under: Africa, Ethiopia, Budget TravelWhen I talk to NGO workers who have worked all over Africa, most say their favorite posting was Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia’s capital is a young city, founded by the Empress Itegue Taitu in the late nineteenth century. She named it the “new flower”,