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Australia in a Post-Covid World: When Can I Go?

By Robert Schrader on October 2, 2021 in Australia, Featured, Melbourne, Pacific, Photos, Sydney

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When will Australia open to tourists? This is the A$1,000,000 question—and unfortunately, there are no certain answers at this point. The cost of Australia’s much-lauded Covid response has been nearly two years of closed borders. As Europe and...

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When to Travel to Korea

By Robert Schrader on September 30, 2021 in Asia, Photos, Seoul, South Korea

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When will Korea open to tourists? Depending on which passport you hold, it may already be “open,” although this is only true in a technical sense. I’ve long speculated that South Korea would be the first country in...

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A Visual Tour Through Italy

By Robert Schrader on September 29, 2021 in Europe, Featured, Italy, Photos

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I met Adriana for coffee near her apartment just east of the Colosseum. Her neighborhood, in spite of its proximity to Italy’s—to Europe’s—most famous building, is not especially touristic. “Rome is home,” she said, when I told...

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The Rights of Afghan Women

By Robert Koehler on September 23, 2021 in Afghanistan, Asia, Featured, Photos

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Suddenly there’s major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the rights of Afghan women and girls to be able to work, to go to school. Oh...

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Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the San Francisco Opera

By Renee Blodgett on September 20, 2021 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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Although we don't get to the opera as much as we'd like, it's always such a moving experience that we always leave saying: why don't we make an effort to do this more often? When...

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Bohemians & Salon Style Dorian in San Francisco

By Renee Blodgett on September 13, 2021 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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We have always loved venues and restaurants that remind us of parlors, largely because we gravitate to the nostalgia of old-world Europe where cafes, speak-easy bars and salons have attracted artists, thinkers, philosophers and writers...

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A Fun-Filled Family Day in Tiburon

By Renee Blodgett on August 18, 2021 in California, Featured, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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Tiburon isn't as well known as other spots to visit in the SF Bay Area even though it's a hop, skip and a jump over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Not only is...

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Fun-Packed Things to Do & Taste in Sonoma

By Renee Blodgett on August 14, 2021 in California, Featured, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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Although we're not new to Sonoma Valley and have tasted our fair share of their wines and walked around their main town square plenty of times, it's been awhile. During our recent trip to Sonoma...

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