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  • Link Round-Ups,  Travel Inspiration

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: Where to Go in 2013

    January 18, 2013

    I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about where to go in 2013 and it got me thinking about two things: 1. All the places I want to go in the world and how that list isn’t getting much shorter. 2. The way that pretty much every aspect of life is subject to trends. When I first realized — probably sometime in high school — that trends exist in categories beyond clothing I was astounded. People regularly talk about clothing trends or fads, but we don’t talk as often about trends in television shows or food or styles of teaching. In the end though, what is popular ebbs and flows…

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    Travel Linkspiration: August 2013

    September 2, 2013

    Linkspiration: March 2020

    March 31, 2020

    Weekly Travel Linkspiration: language learning tips, “off the beaten path” travel, and small backpacks

    April 29, 2013
  • Hawaiian Summer Camp,  Meta-Blogging

    Blog Updates for 2013 and Where I’m Going Next

    January 17, 2013

    I made a few changes to the blog today. The most important is that I decided to buy my URL so, for the rest of the year, I am the proud owner of “anopportunemoment.com.” I also came up with a concrete update schedule. For now, I’m updating four times a week. On Sundays and Thursdays, I’ll be blogging about places I’ve been while on Tuesday and Friday I’ll be continuing my weekly features (Tea Tuesday and Weekly Travel Inspiration). Although I got home from Europe a month ago, I still need to write about the majority of The Great European Adventure. For that reason, my Sunday blog posts will continue…

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    Tea Tuesday: All the Mint

    March 5, 2013

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: Adventures in Travel Vlogging!

    May 5, 2013

    This Tea Tuesday, It’s Actually Ti Tuesday

    June 18, 2013
  • Close to Home,  Tea Tuesday

    Tea Tuesday: Tealuxe

    January 15, 2013

    Tomorrow I will have been home from Europe for four weeks. I’ve mostly been spending the time with friends and family as well as sleeping in and organizing my closet. Today, however, I spent some time exploring my home state. I was meeting a friend in Providence (Rhode Island’s capital) this afternoon for coffee, but first I decided to stop by a local teahouse called Tealuxe. Yes, I got tea before going to my coffee date. What of it? Anyway, Tealuxe is a local chain with locations in Boston and Providence, and I always feel good supporting small(er) businesses. (Afterwards, my friend and I got coffee at Blue State Coffee–another…

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    Welcome to The Beach House

    July 12, 2013

    That Time I Went to Canada for Lunch

    May 30, 2013

    Visiting Home in New England and Returning Home to Berlin

    October 23, 2018
  • The Great European Adventure

    Copenhagen: First Impressions

    January 13, 2013

    I left Amsterdam at 11:00pm on an overnight bus bound for Copenhagen. The ride took 15 hours with a transfer in Hamburg. It was to be the first of many such travel experiences in Europe–in total, I rode two overnight buses and 4 overnight trains over the course of my trip. When I arrived in Copenhagen at 2:00 in the afternoon, it was sunny and I was exhausted. The bus dropped us on a random side street around the corner from the train station and it was some consolation that my fellow travelers looked as weary and confused as me. I hefted my backpack onto my back and started walking…

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    Get Off Your Butt and Do Something (in Bulgaria)

    November 12, 2013

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: The Happiest Countries in the World

    October 19, 2012

    Istanbul: First Impressions and a note about the demonstrations

    June 10, 2013
  • The Great European Adventure,  Travel Inspiration

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: The Fault in Our Stars

    January 11, 2013

    “It happened all at once: We exited the highway and there were  the row houses of my imagination leaning precariously toward canals, ubiquitous bicycles, and coffeeshops advertising LARGE SMOKING ROOM. We drove over a canal and from atop the bridge I could see dozens of houseboats moored along the water. It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real–everything achingly idyllic in the morning light” —The Fault in Our Stars, page 156 The Fault in Our Stars is a bestselling novel by the author John Green, which was published on January 10, 2012, and celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday. It is a heartbreaking and humorous…

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    A Perfect Sunday in Copenhagen

    January 27, 2013

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: The Happiest Countries in the World

    October 19, 2012

    Things You Might See In Vondelpark: A Photo Essay

    December 17, 2012
  • The Great European Adventure

    Amsterdam: Last Look

    January 10, 2013

    Amsterdam and I had our ups and downs, but as soon as I bought a bus ticket to Copenhagen, I felt a pang of sadness at having to leave such a lovely city that I was really just beginning to get a feel for. Regardless, here are a few final photos from my trip to Amsterdam. Perhaps I’ve been a bit redundant in my posts about this city, but I’ll say one more time that the architecture and the canals were just stunning. When Amsterdam wasn’t wowing me with its beauty, it was making me laugh. The next photo encompasses beautiful architecture and questionable water sports. Plus, sometimes a city…

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    Get Off Your Butt and Do Something (in Bulgaria)

    November 12, 2013

    Tea Tuesday: Afternoon Tea in London

    November 13, 2012

    Solo Travel and Self Care in Budapest

    May 20, 2013
  • Tea Tuesday

    Tea Tuesday: Christmas Presents

    January 8, 2013

    I’m the avid tea drinker in most of my friends’ and family’s lives, so tea and tea accoutrements  have become people’s go-to Christmas presents for me. I have no problem with this trend. My best friend visited Rhode Island this past weekend and, because I hadn’t seen her since I got back from Europe, she gave me my Christmas present then. You guys, it was so exciting. This is no ordinary tea tumbler (which is really just a fancy way of saying thermos that has a tea strainer in it). It’s lined with Yixing clay. Yixing clay is especially porous clay that retains the flavor of the tea you brew…

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    Guest Post: Yerba Mate

    May 14, 2013

    Tea Tuesday: Mamaki Tea

    February 26, 2013

    Tea Tuesday: Chai Concentrate

    July 23, 2013
  • The Great European Adventure

    What I Learned in Amsterdam

    January 6, 2013

    or, I Visited Amsterdam and Didn’t Get High I went to Amsterdam for Vincent van Gogh, and Anne Frank. I went because friends had been and spoke highly of this fun, cultural city. And I listened when people told me that Amsterdam was an amazing place to party. That’s where I went wrong. Amsterdam was the first place that I traveled to by myself, and although I had one contact in the city, he was in the midst of studying abroad and busy with classes and his own life. I stayed at hostels that didn’t facilitate meeting other travelers (no common room!), and I was new to this, so I…

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    8 Reasons Why Krakow Should Be on Your European Itinerary

    March 1, 2013

    What I ate in Reykjavik, and so can you!

    September 24, 2012

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: Exhausted Edition

    November 16, 2012
  • Travel Inspiration

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: Hobbit Safety

    January 4, 2013

    I know this video came out a month ago, but I saw The Hobbit recently and it seemed appropriate. In case you haven’t seen it yet, Air New Zealand came out with an airline safety video that is Lord of the Rings themed. Peter Jackson has a quick cameo, and the whole affair is silly while still providing real safety information. They even made their slogan: The Airline of Middle-earth. I hope it makes you feel like hopping on a plane even if it can’t actually fly you to a fantasy world.

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    Travel Linkspiration: May 2013

    June 5, 2013

    We Went to Kenya! Kenya in Africa!

    February 19, 2019

    Weekly Travel Inspiration: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman

    May 10, 2013
  • Tea Tuesday,  The Great European Adventure

    Tea Tuesday: Dobrá Čajovna

    January 1, 2013

    I first fell in love with teahouses in Barcelona, at a teahouse called Čaj Chai, which was founded by some Czech immigrants to the city. I have written, and waxed poetic, and gushed about this teahouse before, and I will do so again, but for now I want to tell you about a teahouse in Prague called Dobrá Čajovna, which I was pleased to stumble upon. It was so good, I went twice over the course of my five days in Prague. When I found it, I was surprised–an Asian-style teahouse in the Czech Republic? Apparently this isn’t at all an unusual thing. The teahouse in Barcelona that I so…

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    Charleston Tea Plantation!!! (The Most Exciting Tea Tuesday Yet)

    August 27, 2013

    Tea Tuesday: Home From Hawai’i

    March 26, 2013

    Tea Tuesday: Afternoon Tea in London

    November 13, 2012
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