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@carolinesietmann and I once found ourselves in the middle of nowhere, #Norway, but it was really #Flåm, a flick of a hamlet off the railroad between Oslo and Bergen. Those two cities bookended the @visitnorway leg of our #Scandinavian Springst

My clubbing career was very short-lived: under-aged my way into Zouk’s original Mambo Jambo nights at 17, the prerequisite vodka-Ribena jug chugs. During college, Saturday evening boogies, maybe bartop dancing. But it was #Chicagobar life that

@visitsermoneta is the real @italiait, the 99% of the #BelPaese that international tourists don’t visit. This is how I spent time in #VisitSermoneta with my Roman family: We climbed #orangetrees and plucked citrus which we ate while overlooking

Even as #Venezia is still slinking out of her Carnevale hangover, she’s still draped in a masquerade of magic, mystic, mystery, and mist. She’s on her best behavior così, in her #LaSerenissima element. She’s haunted, she&rsqu

Everyday in @roma I walk about 28,000 steps, which, considering it has almost 2,800 years of history, is an empirical formula of 10 steps for every gladiatorial, senatorial, archeological, culinaria marvel on display in this open air museum (and then

Presenting 92-year-old #AntonioRao, the oldest @runrome_themarathon finisher at 6:44, and a fellow finisher of the Rome 10K last year 👟 My #running had been fallow since 2018. I’d set a personal record of 3:52 at Berlin Marathon, maintained de

Three times I traipsed through #Trastevere, like the three coins you toss into the Trevi. Once with an old friend, once with an even older friend, and once with the person I’ve known the longest — me. But in the 13th #rione, all these yea

Meet me ‘neath that giant Exxon sign, where Tenth Avenue crosses Thunder Road like a runaway American dream into the promised land.
“The mighty #EStreetBand is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of #rocknroll

#Bushwhacking and #bushwalking in Gruyère, @visitvictoria @yarravalleydandenongranges @australia.
#trekking #hiking #offtrail #yarravalley #australia #downunder #outdoors #outdooradventurephotos #outdooradventures #kangaroo #forest #oldtrees #

Behind every pathological #pancake eater, there is an enabling papa. In pre-Marina Bay Sands #Singapore, #MinJiangKueh was a cheap and easy snack — a handful of happiness, like all great holdable and portable #carbs stuffed with fantastic feeli

Sometimes as a kid, you lpick up a softball and toss it, not knowing anything about the sport, and end up playing it for life. Sometimes a friend tells you to come to Italy, which sets in motion so many wonderful things. Sometimes a friend helps you

“Our food is so enriching, even with all the money you can’t get this food outside,” said Vikram, a very knowledgeable friend of #SriSenpagaVinayagarTemple, a shrine where Lord #Ganesha presides in #Katong. He meant the wada made fr

I don’t remember how @ashleahalpern and I met, a decade ago, but such a minor detail buried under the palatial piles of plates of Singapore #hawkerfood polished off together. Then, as now (and forever), it is the highest honor to be in the halo

I’ve had better #Thanksgiving plates, but I’ve never had more #gratitude, with plenty leftover to keep in my back pocket for every single day. My #family, my #friends, my @thelensmen2020 team, everyone I have the privilege of working with

The vibrant, exhilarating heart of true explorers: touching down in #Singapore after a 18:40 non-stop from JFK, literally lagged but figuratively fresh, and in feisty, fighting form to dedicate just 36 hours here to #Katong and #LittleIndia. Forget c

It’s #TevereDay2024, and this week the #TiberRiver flowing through @roma becomes a #unescoworldheritage site. Arriving in #Rome in May — that kind of long-awaited, much-anticipated childhood dream touchdown — my first deep dive into

As a kid, I don’t remember which came first — learning about the #Colosseum then dreaming of encountering it for the next 40 years, or learning the word “colossal” before knowing it derives from the 1,944-year-old, 80,000-spec

Because in the real #Singapore that’s sweatily authentic, there’s always an uncle selling #icecreamsandwiches gripped with rainbow bread. If you know where he parks in your neighborhood, you’re a local.

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