Ohhh the love locks on the Pont des Artes in Paris! How romantic! What an incredible age-old tradition to take part in! Surely affixing a lock to the bridge and throwing the key in the Seine River means your love will last forever! False. The love lock “tradition” began just a few years ago —…
Paris, my true love, over the years I have explored so much of what you have to offer. I repeatedly return to wander through the charming streets among the sharply dressed locals and munch on endless croissants. But this time I dug deeper… much deeper… into the bowels of the city, in fact. Among the lesser-known…
Disclaimer: the food featured in this post is NOT actually called a Czech churro, it’s called trdelnik. In fact, the only thing about this sweet pastry that resembles a churro is the delicious cinnamon-sugar exterior coating. But guess what? I can actually pronounce churro and I cannot pronounce trdelnik. Believe me, I tried and it’s not pronounced like the word looks.…
Living in the Washington, D.C. area means Pennsylvania is only a couple hours away and I encounter a lot of Pennsylvania transplants. The PA pride is strong in D.C.! But I always figured if Pennsylvania were THAT great more people would stay there instead of coming here in droves, right? Well, I decided it was time to…
As I have previously mentioned, Vancouver really won me over. Part of that is due not just to the natural beauty and wonderful people, but to the odd little things I observed around the city. Being a little quirky myself, I like it when others embrace the weird. For instance, this sign at Granville Island…
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