Kitzbuhel, Austria: Designed for Hikers, Bikers, & Skiers
Taking a long hike in Jochberg, meeting local people at the top of Kitzbuhel mountain in Austria.
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Taking a long hike in Jochberg, meeting local people at the top of Kitzbuhel mountain in Austria.
By Denene Brox I managed to avoid my fear of language learning when I was younger because studying a foreign language was never a requirement for me when I was in high school and college. Then the summer before my senior year of college I went on a study abroad…
Cinque Terre, Italy: Mediterranean Beauty By Eleonora Dell’Aquila WHERE The Cinque Terre are five villages – Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso – that lie in a stretch of eighteen kilometers along the rocky and irregular coast of eastern Liguria. In 1999 this territory and the marine environment have been…
Greenland: A visit to frozen Greenland and details about life in the main towns of Nuuk, Ilulissat, Sisimiut, and Kangergueseag.
Charlotte Turner describes Fort William, Scotland, and the climb up Ben Nevis, gateway to Scotland, and highest mountain in the United Kingdom.
By Jacqueline Harmon Butler Looking out the window of a music store in Lisbon, Portugal, I laughed out loud watching a passing parade of vintage convertible cars progressing along Avenue Liberdade. They were filled with brides in all sizes, shapes and ages, dressed in all their bridal finery. The storeowner…
GoNOMAD Book Excerpt: A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England By Robert Todd Felton This work examines the major figures of the Transcendentalist movement and explores the places that inspired them. Beginning with Transcendentalism’s birth in Boston and Cambridge, the book charts the development of a movement that revolutionized American…
A visit to Scotland to trace ancestral roots with the help of Scottish Ancestral Trails, a Scottish tour company specializing in geneology.
By Jenny Coates Dartmoor is famous as an area of outstanding natural beauty, but in fact, most of it is man-made. Sitting on the top of Hound Tor, an ungainly stack of boulders looking out over the bracken-covered slopes, it’s hard to believe. But the landscape is not all prehistoric…
By Cindy-Lou Dale Being one of life’s great cheapskates, I decided against hiring a car and took a two-hour €6 bus ride out of Budapest to Eger, the historic wine region of Hungary. This was a decision I would later regret. A formidable Neanderthal lumbered onto the already full bus….
By Laurie Ellis and Shady Hartshorne When some people think of Amsterdam, they think of a hedonist’s paradise where marijuana and prostitution are legal. Scantily clad women stand in store windows advertising their “wares” and scruffy backpackers from all over the world cram themselves into cheap hotels for the opportunity…
By Jennifer Wattam Klit WHERE Copenhagen to Helsingor, also known as “Elsinore” is about 45 kilometers (28 miles) to the north. It has 60,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by The Sound (Oresund) — the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden. Helsingor is the closest Danish city to Sweden. The…