The Most Inspiring Video I’ve Ever Seen

What am I about to show you has absolutely nothing to do with travel. But it is about living your dream, and sometimes you get your inspiration from the strangest places. If even one person who sees this video and reads the story behind it is inspired to change the course of their life, take [...]

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Why I Secretly Love France:

OW THE CUTE MY EYES IT’S BLINDING ME

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Rerun: Hotels, and My Love of Them

Hotels are my passion. From Motel 6′s to five-star luxury resorts, I love everything about them. I love maid service. I love room service. I love turndown service. I love having a drink in hotel lobby lounges, even if I am not staying there. I love hotel restaurants, with their overpriced comfort food and poor [...]

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Cheeky: Hotels or Vacation Apartments?

Miss Expatria’s gentle readers already know of my fierce and abiding love for hotels. But today, I came across an interesting argument for vacation apartments – and this has prompted me to give full disclosure: I LOVE HOTELS. AND I ALSO LOVE VACATION APARTMENTS. It’s like a mother’s love for her children – I love [...]

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Miss Expatria’s Secrets to a Great Vacation

When I was six years old, my parents and I moved to their favorite vacation spot on the Jersey Shore. Twenty-seven years later, I followed in their footsteps and moved to my favorite vacation spot – Rome. Four years later, I now live in the South of France among a group of people from around [...]

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Rerun: My Favorite Hotels

I am thinking of great hotel rooms in my time, in no order: – Helmsley Middletown, NYC. My old company booked me in a room when they made me come to NY and I got upgraded to a suite, with a living room and everything. And there was my favorite Indian restaurant downstairs that delivered. [...]

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Italian Bloggers on Strike Today, July 14, 2009

On July 14, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new rules which will limit the freedom of expression in Italian internet. The so-called “obligation [...]

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Tour de France Team Time Trial Hits Montpellier, France Today

The Tour de France Team Time Trial Hits Montpellier, France Today… and I’m not ready for it.

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Jeffrey White: An Inspiration To Us All

Jeffrey White, an award-winning foreign correspondent who reported from 15 countries and was married just weeks ago, died Monday after a lengthy battle with cancer that he fought with quiet dignity and courage. He was 32. He was also my cousin, and he will be missed by all who knew and loved him. For those [...]

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