I am not a skier. I never learned as a child; my experiences as an adult have been humiliating, to put it mildly. Yet in spite of this, the word “japow” is firmly in my...
My travels in Helsinki have always come after seeing somewhere more exciting, be that the reindeer forests near the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, or the islands of the country’s Gulf archipelago. Indeed, they’ve been...
Rwanda captivated me from the moment I touched down in Kigali. “It’s like the Singapore of Africa,” the local friend I went to dinner that night with told me when I asked him how he enjoyed...
I first visited Amman to fulfill a promise. A dear college classmate of mine was Jordanian, and I promised her I’d come and stay with her family on the day we graduated.
When I think of...
By Renee Blodgett on October 3, 2023 in Boston, Featured, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, New York, North America, Photos, USA
Not only have I spent a significant amount of time in New England but I lived in the Boston area for over a decade. During that chapter of my life, We Blog the World didn't...
Although the origin of the word Karma comes from ancient Sanskrit which is associated with 'action, effect and fate', and most known from Hinduism and Buddhism, it has moved across the globe and in our...
Jerusalem was the first place I visited in Israel, but Tel Aviv was my first love. Indeed, when I initially set foot in Jerusalem late one night in September of 2010, I quite hated the...
For me, the San Sebastian vs Bilbao debate was settled before I even arrived in Spain’s Basque Country. Like virtually everyone I knew, I planned to stay in San Sebastian, the idyllic seaside home of pinxtos (peen-chos),...
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