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2015 Highlights: World Travel

2015 is quickly drawing to a close. We are always in travel planning mode, cooking up our next adventures. But it’s also nice every so often to reflect back on a year well spent, one full of passport stamps and...

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More than Pickled Fish in Moscow

‘So, is Russian food all beets and pickled fish? And vodka to drink?’ Yes, this is a real question I received more than once upon my return from a few days in Moscow. It was an epic long weekend which you can catch...

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Moscow Impressions

Here’s the best way I know to describe the many faces of Moscow. One side of Red Square is a huge department store called Gum (ГУМ). Its intricate carved stone façade looks right at home across the way from a...

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Ballet at the Bolshoi Theater

I’m retroactively updating my Life Bucket List to include ‘Watch a ballet at the Bolshoi Theater’ because it’s the kind of experience that should be on a bucket list. And it’s the kind of thing that one...