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The old adage about the pen being mightier than the sword may be true in international diplomacy, but it is especially true when traveling....
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airline passenger restrictions and special requests: how far is too far?
Saturday's post about Malaysian Airlines' decision to create a child-free zone in their luxury first class caused a bit of a firestorm among my readers...
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ambérieu-en-bugey, france: my hometown
By guest blogger Fabien Reynaud.
Even though I left my birthplace some fourteen years ago to move the UK, I wanted to share a little...
from london to the simple life in altus, arkansas
By guest blogger Fabien Reynaud.
I never thought that after viewing a television program, my partner and I would end up in what at first...
welcome to curaçao: need a coffee?
By Guest Blogger Vince Catalanotto.
If your cruise liner docks in Curaçao, resist the urge to stop in Starbucks. You will find an outlet of the...
want to be a guest blogger on flyingnorth?
With the relaunch of the flyingnorth blog as flyingnorth: navigating the twenty-first century world, I thought it would be a nice idea to include...
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koyasan and the daito, or great pagoda
Koyasan, Japan is a center of Buddhist study and practice, located in the Wakayama Prefecture at an elevation of approximately 900 meters above...
the incredible ghost town of kayaköy
Just a few kilometers from the town of Fethiye, a small tourist town that has become overrun by British tourists lies the small...
a history of hagia sofia in istanbul, as told by sofia petrillo of the...
Picture it, Constantinople, 537. A young emperor dedicates a new structure to St. Sophia, the Divine Wisdom. Before this, he had spent many hours...
a prop plane over the lost world of the tepuis in venezuela
Venezuela’s interior is quite beautiful, and a nice change from the chaos of Caracas, a capital city that sadly doesn’t rate very high on...
kyoto’s kinkaku, or golden pavillion
Kyoto was quite a surprise. I didn't know much about the city except that it was the location for the the UN climate change...
polar regions
flying north in antarctica: the official trailer
I will be blogging from Antarctica in March. This is the official trailer.
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