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I know… it seems like I did a lot of traveling this summer. Because of the nature of my job, I’m really only allowed to take my vacation days during the summer months (with exceptions here and there, for short three-day weekend trips and such), so I generally try to do the big vacations in [...]

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Three months after our Mediterranean cruise, I give you the last installment of our two-week vacation: Istanbul, Turkey. Spain, Italy and Greece were wonderful, but the place I was most excited to visit during our cruise was Turkey. I have a slight obsession with Middle Eastern food and culture, and was so looking forward to spending [...]

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It’s almost fall, and I still haven’t posted about all the amazing ports of call we stopped at during our two-week Mediterranean cruise earlier this summer. One of the places we were most excited to visit—or revisit, I guess I should say—was Greece. B and I gorged on great Greek food when we vacationed there last [...]

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Taormina sits high on a cliff in the eastern province of Messina on the Italian island of Sicily. It is a charming little town… exactly like what you’d picture a quaint European village to be. Dozens of cafés, bakeries, gelato shops and restaurants line the streets, as do small clothing boutiques and stores filled with [...]

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I just love markets. Especially ones in foreign countries. In fact, when B and I travel, the first thing we research is where the central market is. And sure enough, our first stop when we landed in Barcelona was the famous Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, or simply La Boqueria. Situated directly off [...]

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