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I had been to Italy five times before I made it to Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, so I was thrilled when I finally booked my ticket to go.
I wasn’t disappointed. Florence is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen, with medieval and Renaissance churches in every practically every piazza, interesting [...]

Cagliari is one of my favorite cities in Europe. It’s beautiful, urban, gritty, historic, and located on a beautiful stretch of beach (you can’t beat that!). Any time is a good time to visit Cagliari, but if there’s one time that’s better than all the others, it’s the annual weekend in May known as “Monuments [...]

The best part of my recent trip to Florence was simply wandering the streets. It’s amazing just how much egregious beauty there is in la bella Firenze.
One mesmerizing sight was the chalk artists who recreate masterpieces on the Florentine streets. It was amazing to watch the artists’ speed and skill as they picked through their [...]

Florence can be overwhelming. In a city dedicated to beautiful things, from churches to palaces to designer shoes, student travelers can have hard time knowing where to go to take home a piece of the loveliness at a student-friendly price. One of the best options is to head to the city’s largest market, the market [...]

We’ve all run into that kind of tourist. The one who’s so intent on doing the city that they spend more time looking at their guidebook than the monuments, the ones who can only admire a beautiful view from from behind a camera lens. Done-it-all tourists are a pain once they get back home. You’re [...]

At the east end of the Grote Markt you’ll find the Martini Tower, a huge square bell tower that rises over the city and can be seen from almost anywhere (making it, incidentally, a great way to reorient if you get lost). As one of Groningen’s characteristic monuments, it’s worth a visit when you’re in [...]

Toward the end of my semester in Ireland, I started to get a little bored. I had become well acquainted with the bars and clubs of Cork and I had been to most of the local sights like the Rose Garden at Fitzgerald Park, the small-but-entertaining Cork Museum, and the Crawford Art Gallery. But I [...]

Ireland isn’t know for its fine cuisine, and to a certain extent this is an accurate assessment. To be fair, the comfort food is great. Shepherd’s pie and Irish stew are fantastic and I had some great fish chowders while I was staying in seaside towns. Irish soda bread or black currant scones with fresh [...]

This open-air museum seems in a strange place.  Substantially far from the capital of Budapest, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, the statues are rather randomly placed in a large open field.  Why aren’t these statues situated closer to the centre of town so that tourists can have easy access?
In fact all these artifacts date [...]

Sometimes you just see something a little amusing.  Here is shot of one such occasion I had in Berlin, the capital of Germany.  Here we can plainly see what could be called nothing more than a toddler’s bike left out in the street, in the middle of the night, attached to a street sign with [...]