We only intended to visit Monaco for a day, however we enjoyed the nation so much that we spent two days instead. Our goal was to visit all European micronations, and Monaco was one on the list. Monaco is the second smallest nation on Earth, but it has the highest
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Mexico is another of those nations that are too big to explore. Ever. We visited Mexico City in February 2019. It was less of an attempt to visit the whole city, and more of a “we’ll explore as much as we can and leave” trip, since we had only two
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Our experience in Martinique was great. Nothing bad happened at all. Oh wait. Our camera got stolen? Martinique is a French Overseas Territory, located in the Caribbean. We visited near Christmas 2016. Its capital is at Fort-De-France, and almost looks and feels like a plantation colony. The first day, we
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Much of the Maldives may be underwater by 2050. That’s not a lot of time. Maybe it’s a good thing we got this trip in. We actually wanted to go to the Maldives for a while, but the sheer distance just delayed the trip. An opportunity arose when we travelled
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Our visit to Italy was spread throughout two different trips. Our reasoning was simple: Italy is such a huge and historical region that covering the nation would take ages. Our first trip to Italy was to the north – the cities of Venice and Milan, which we visited from Salzburg
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Yes, for your information, we did visit Montego Bay. The tourist hub of Jamaica, Montego Bay is known for its resorts. We were visiting one, namely, the Hilton Rose Hall resort. It was the Memorial Day weekend, and we wanted to experience something we lacked in our travels. An all-inclusive
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We had packed our bags the day before. We had left Rome, our home for the past week. We arrived in our plane, and even at the second I arrived, I noticed one huge difference. While Rome was huge and cosmopolitan, Latvia was not. From the small baggage claim and
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Liechtenstein is basically a big hill. Or maybe a few hills and valleys. Maybe. Liechtenstein is definitely small no matter what. “Wow.” I said. The Alps never failed to impress. We were on our way to Liechtenstein, as part of a drive all around the Alps. That day, we had
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I have a bad habit of not researching the places we go to (my dad told me to research our destinations once, but I only researched Ukraine in the end). A landmark is meaningless without knowing the story behind it. In Lithuania, I learned how interesting the backstories to some
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The question one asks when they enter Luxembourg is: Why am I here? Is it because of finance, the main source of Luxembourg’s GDP, is it for true tourism, visiting a country for its sights, or is it for a third reason? We were there because of that third reason:
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