Category: travel

2016’s Top 10 Travel Adventures and Endeavours: Creating Lasting Memories with a Little Bit of Self-Growth

Whether we’re ready for a new year or not, the final day of 2016 is here. My social media feeds are filled with hundreds of reflections based on the last three hundred and sixty-five days and action plans for the upcoming three hundred and sixty-five. As I recently discovered, I’m not immune to this end-of-year reflection… Read More 2016’s Top 10 Travel Adventures and Endeavours: Creating Lasting Memories with a Little Bit of Self-Growth

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Advent Adventures in Zurich, Switzerland

Turn on that holiday music, take out that tinsel and pour yourself a cup of steaming Glühwein because it’s time to enter the festive world of European Christmas markets. From roughly mid-November to December 24th, hundreds of European city squares and old town streets become home to annual Christmas markets. The abundance of Christmas lights and… Read More Advent Adventures in Zurich, Switzerland

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Xylokastro, Greece

If someone were to offer you a week-long, all-inclusive holiday to one place in Greece, where would you choose to go? Would it be Santorini? Mykonos? Any island with those iconic white houses slowing descending into turquoise seas? These places are probably the first destinations I would choose to go…or would’ve chosen to go if my… Read More Xylokastro, Greece

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Turin, Italy

Turin, the capital of the Piedmont region, may not always appear on one’s list of top 5 Italian destinations to visit. However, after having the chance to spend time in more than 5 Italian cities and towns this year, Turin definitely falls into my top 5. Close yet complex ties with France throughout the centuries have caused… Read More Turin, Italy

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Remembering Through Street Art and Architecture

During the Bosnian War, the city of Mostar underwent more than one siege. The first siege lasted a few months in 1992, and the second siege lasted for nearly a year (1993-1994). Today, bombed, bullet-pierced, graffiti-filled buildings still stand all throughout town. They demand that citizens and tourists alike remember the country’s past. This post’s… Read More Remembering Through Street Art and Architecture

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