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“Our affection for Prague has only deepened. It does still feel magical”—American cookbook writer Melissa Joulwan. She & her partner are the forces behind the @strongsenseof podcast on literary travel/books. They’ve lived in #Prague for 6 years | @expatscz buff.ly/3XABNms
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From seeing the #NorthernLights aboard a Navy ship in Norway to the “oceanic feeling” of noticing stars everywhere on a walk back to a youth hostel in Britanny, France, 9 readers of @atlasobscura share their best “summer night sky” stories buff.ly/44ySgds #darksky #stars
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Mourning the loss of #JaneBirkin, the “little English girl” who came to Paris in the 1960s & became a French icon. As she once put it: “So Paris became my home. I’ve been adopted here. They like my accent.” She died at home in Paris on July 16 | @guardian buff.ly/3NRpU77
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Americans TJ & Tony have decided to quit their jobs, give away nearly everything they own & move from the US to France. They’ve just arrived in Nice as part of a scouting trip to the south of France—& are finding it far hotter than they’d expected!buff.ly/3Q0mbqs #expat
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From Sriracha to coffee to seafood, these ten foods produced & consumed around the world are growing more expensive due to climate change | @fodorstravel buff.ly/3NNW1Vj #foodfriday #climatecrisis
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“I recommend checking out the Ducasse sur Seine lunch cruise”: one of the many gems in @LindseyTramuta’s treasure trove of recommendations for a memorable summer in Paris—her own & those of several locals buff.ly/3DuHeKx #Paris #France #ttot
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The expansion of global trade & exploration in 16th-c England had an impact on tastes & fashions. Lauren Woking & @emilylsteve, an expert on 16th-c travel writing, introduce 6 artefacts that speak to how the Tudors caught the #travel bug | @historyextra buff.ly/3pGaTNi
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Idioms—one of the joys of #languagelearning, providing insight into culture and also fun to use. From being in the fifth pine to looking for the cat w/ 3 feet to finding your half orange, here are 20 delightful #Spanish idioms | @mental_floss buff.ly/44nTEzl
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“Looking back I’m proud of myself, I never missed or was short of anything”: Iceland-born, Lima-based clothing designer Matthildur Halldorsdottir went from Lima to Amsterdam, Lisbon & finally Morocco, w/ just a carry-on; she offers #packingtips buff.ly/3rw9eKH
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“This book is perfect to consume in audio format”: @book_problem on *The Last Colony*, by @philippesands, w/c tells the story of how Britain forcibly displaced the residents of its last colony in Africa, the Chagos Islands, using personal accounts buff.ly/44FtTdL
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When she met Anglo-Russian equine explorer Alexandra Tolstoy, Sarah Siese couldn’t spell the name of Kyrgyzstan, let alone place it on the map. She is now a convert to exploring its landscape & traditions of hospitality, on horseback | @_houseandgarden buff.ly/3JNDx5Y
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“The flowers in England are next level”: international creative @JLScott of the #dailyconnoisseur is taking a break from #California to spend three months in a flat in the #UK that was designed by her mother-in-law. She shares details of her everyday life buff.ly/3NCQJMa
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A Japanese railway company is introducing a simultaneous translation system to accommodate the rising number of foreign tourists. It will help station staff communicate in 12 languages, including English, Vietnamese & Portuguese | @NHKWORLD_News buff.ly/3XI4cqy #Japan
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“A love-letter to Japanese culture, landscape & literature”: The latest offering from international creative Nick Bradley, (@nasubijutsu), in w/c an American translator living in #Japan undertakes a life-changing translation exercise | @BookReviewsAsia buff.ly/46Bw57L
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Ruth Kelly (@ruthywriter) spent her childhood in tropical countries & “had the great fortune of growing up in Papua New Guinea,” where she got to know the island of Loloata—memories of w/c inspired the setting for her debut #thriller | @Culturefly buff.ly/3XLNIOb
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“It’s poetry in motion—whether the poets are outfitted in artistically embroidered & appliquéd guinea brocade robes or mismatched European fitted separates”: Nigerian-born British designer Duro Olowu on the #fashion scene in Dakar, Senegal | @voguemagazine buff.ly/3radqzH
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What gets translated? Who decides? The New York Times Books Review on why it decided to dedicate its entire July 2 issue to the wealth and diversity of translation | @nytimesbooks buff.ly/3JBBCBC #translation #translator
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“Istanbul stands out because it’s a treasure trove for the curious”: Australian @goreme1990 on what drew her to #Istanbul as a place to live & on sustainable tourism. She has produced 4 books about Istanbul & Türkiye & a city audio tour | @1planettourism buff.ly/3O0hoEd
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“Sunder is a captivating storyteller”: @susan_BK reviews *Boomtown GIrl* by international creative @ShubhaSunder, a Bangalore transplant to Boston—consisting of 9 #shortstories that mainly take place in 1990s #Bangalore | @BookReviewsAsia buff.ly/3PFBt3U
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The Tabernas Desert in Almeria, Spain—Europe’s only real desert—became a giant movie set for the spaghetti westerns once made by Italian film companies. It has since been transformed into a theme park, as Sonia & Wojtek of @happylittletrav discover buff.ly/3r9qVjf
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“The author is truly skilled at creating a sense of place”: @TripFiction reviews the latest novel by the nomadic Christine Mangan. Called *The Continental Affair*, it’s set across early 1960s Europe, starting from Granada, then Paris, Belgrade & Istanbul buff.ly/44hNSz0
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Eat your way through #KualaLumpur in a single day, with the help of Malaysian food writer Yi Jun Loh—he’s a @Cambridge_Uni grad & blogs at Jun & Tonic, where he offers “kooky creations influenced by multiple cultures” | @lonelyplanet buff.ly/3PFuMi7 #foodfriday #Malaysia
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“Our food is so much more than just kebab & rice,” says Nasim Alikhani, who runs an Iranian restaurant in Brooklyn, @Sofreh_Brooklyn, & whose 1st cookbook came out this week—a big step in her quest to bring Persian cuisine to a global audience @cntraveler buff.ly/44rb9hS
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“The lobio is exceptional. Always cooked fresh, the beans are stewed to creamy perfection”: @PrlYakob lauds the comfort food served at affordable prices in Ghebi’s namesake basement restaurant, in Georgia’s northern borderlands of Racha | @CBackstreets buff.ly/3CQWVLy
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“There is nothing quite like angel food cake, yet you rarely see it served in the UK. Angel food cake is an American cake, possibly developed by Amish Mennonites”—UK food writer @nicmillerstale shares her #recipe for a lemon-lime version | @SuffolkNewswire buff.ly/44rbLEc
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As travel recovers from pandemic lows, travelers are once again experiencing the consequences of overtourism at enticing. Many people say they want to support sustainable tourism—but the concept remains fuzzy, w/ many definitions | @natgeotravel buff.ly/3ojroev
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Following on from her memoir, *The Cat with Three Passports*, international creative @carla_francis1—she lives between England, Australia & Japan—has produced *The Zen of Cat*, describing the giant paw print cats have left on Japanese life, @MacmillanAus buff.ly/3XwxLeL
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Recently a tourist decided to immortalize his visit to the Colosseum in #Rome w/ his GF by scratching their names into one of its walls. That’s a big no-no (& could carry a prison sentence). What other mistakes have locals & expats observed? | @HuffPost buff.ly/3NNVUdr
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To experience the essence of Ireland on a visit to #Dublin, get out of the city center, try the local food & come prepared for unpredictable weather, advises Gail Clifford of @able_photo (she divides her time between the US & Ireland) | @TravelAwaitsNow buff.ly/44355MU
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Alpacas in Tokyo? They even have Japanese names, Akane & Satsuki. They are often seen trotting down the street for their morning constitutional, on leads held by their keepers, b4 heading back to their home, in a petting zoo | @Reuters buff.ly/3r5gE7C #alpaca #Tokyo
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When composing her novel *The Great Reclamation*—the story of a boy growing up in the period when #Singapore was struggling to gain independence from British colonialism—Rachel Heng chose to include Singaporean words without a glossary | @TIME buff.ly/3Jz17Do
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“When flying, I always ask for a middle seat. It doubles your chances of hearing a good story”: travel writer Bob Payne talks to @WanderingEds about his #memoir, *Escape Clauses*, recounting his visits to 142 countries: how ever did he narrow it down?! buff.ly/3EhdfGZ
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Revenge travel! In Katherine Lin’s debut novel, *You Can’t Stay Here Forever*, a young Taiwanese American widow recovers from her husband’s sudden death & the news of his infidelity, by heading to the French Riviera w/ her best friend | @nytimesbooks buff.ly/3NNQe3d
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“Sometimes the best way to explore a city on foot is to simply wander, with no goal in mind”: travel writer @stephronyt on the need to revive the art of being a flâneur, in the spirit of Henry James | @nytimestravel buff.ly/3qXQKT7
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“Although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them”: Travel turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best, contends philosopher @AgnesCollard | @NewYorker buff.ly/3NNma7K #traveltuesday
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Best to avoid Europe this summer? Experts are warning American travelers not to expect to bag a bargain on flights to Europe—and to prepare for potential disruption and extreme weather | @MailOnline buff.ly/3Xp9kzS #traveltuesday #Europe
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“I had worked under difficult conditions in the jungle myself & could ask him questions”: Filmmaker Werner Herzog on what drew him to writing a novel about a real-life Japanese soldier who fought on in a #Philippines jungle, unaware #WWII had ended buff.ly/42XnUQm
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Prince William is launching a 5-year, locally led plan in six flagship locations around the UK to demonstrate it is possible to end #homelessness—using #Finland’s “Housing First” policy as an exemplar | @cnni buff.ly/3pk3ZNJ
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Lars Balderskilde sells Danish modern furniture to US buyers, w/c he sources from his native Denmark. Customers appreciate that the pieces come from “real homes,” while sellers in Denmark like the “saga” of the furniture making its way to Brooklyn @nytimes buff.ly/3PrT4vR
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“I loved the Du Maurier vibes”: British writer JP Delaney’s latest #PsychologicalThriller, *The New Wife*, is set in sultry #Mallorca & exudes menace; due out July 20 | @QuercusBooks buff.ly/44d1TxM #SummerReading #thriller
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While on a 14-day solo quarantine in a hotel room in Singapore, attempting to start her new novel, international creative Rachel Heng ended up watching the reality show #NextinFashion —& to her great surprise, had an epiphany for her work | @bustle buff.ly/43WnZoJ
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The UK has been celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Windrush’s journey from #Jamaica to England. In fact, however, much of a the narrative surrounding the arrival of 1st postwar wave of West Indian immigrants is a myth, contends @edwest | @TheSpectator buff.ly/44c9uws
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“Set in the south of France, the descriptions of the area made me sigh for the sun”: In @SabineDurrant’s latest psychological thriller, *Sun Damage*, a pair of privileged English con artists ply their trade in #France. “Clever & original” says @on_magazine buff.ly/44bimm0
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An African woman who speaks perfect, flawless, accentless Korean? That’s Monica Macias’s story. What’s more, she learned her Korean during a decade-long stay in Pyongyang, as chronicled in her new #memoir, *Black Girl from Pyongyang* |@BookReviewsAsia buff.ly/3NJ0sBY
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“I crave Vegemite pretty often”: Hetty Lui McKinnon grew up in Australia eating Cantonese food & now lives in NYC. She infuses her dishes w/ expertise on the cuisines that shaped her life while navigating fusion food; her new book is *Tenderheart* @TheCut buff.ly/43TIMt5
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If you can’t be in #Greece you may as well be reading about it! *Taverna by the Sea* is an account by @JenBarclayBooks of her summer spent working in a taverna on Karpathos—& “a welcome new book of Greek travel writing” | Greece Travel Secrets buff.ly/42WksoU
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“If you dream, you can do it”?! The death of five people on the Titan submersible highlights the surge in what some are calling "extreme tourism”—but the pursuit of adventure raises the risk that things can go wrong | @CBSNews buff.ly/3Xq42E9 #Titan #adventure #travel
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Correspondents and staff members for Japanese financial newspaper @nikkei share their picks of the best Japanese restaurants in the cities where they’re living as #expats: New York, London, Frankfurt & Paris | @FT Globetrotter buff.ly/3Ndu5tC #foodfriday
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Targeting both domestic & international travelers, San Francisco has launched a $6 million ad campaign to promote #tourism, w/c has yet to rebound to pre-pandemic levels owing to the city’s issues of crime & homelessness | @TravelAwaitsNow buff.ly/3Nk9Fz9 #ttot
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British-born Norm Dove has called Canada home for 56 years. He bought a working ranch in 1990 & has been slowly converting it into an upmarket lodge—in line w/ the trend to make #BritishColumbia into a destination for cowboy culture | @NatGeoTravel buff.ly/3XsVxbt
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In American writer & teacher @liamcallahan's new novel, *When in Rome*, an American woman weighs taking up with an old flame versus joining an Italian convent. Callahan recommends 6 of his favorite books set in Italy’s Eternal City for @TheWeek buff.ly/44fA73Y #Italy
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Each day, it seems like more Americans are reimagining retirement and saying, “Sim, por favor” to retire in #Portugal. International creative Chrishan Wright, who is planning to move there this year herself, provides a complete guide | @CNTraveler buff.ly/42Ot9l3 #ttot
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