Because 2 weeks of traveling isn’t enough
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Buenas Tardes
We still don’t know too much about Merida. For our first 4 days, the city has been celebrating Carnaval. Most of the storefronts have been closed and replaced with impromptu coolers of cold Coca-Colas for sale or fluorescent pink hand-written signs advertising clean bathrooms for 5 pesos and up. Half of our meals have been enjoyed from…
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The Last Supper in Berlin
It’s our last weekend in Berlin. At this point in a month-long trip, we like to revisit our favorite sites, bars, and restaurants in preparation for leaving. In Berlin, we are saying goodbye to: the Reichstag, Schwarze Traube – our neighborhood cocktail bar, and a sampling of Turkish fast food indulging in one last delicious…
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Fish, Mime, and Hamburg
In a day it is easy to take a leisurely stroll from east to west through all of central Hamburg. Amidst the harbor and bustle, we can sum up our time there in a series of anecdotes which we think give a pretty good idea of Hamburg. Hundreds of people lined up outside of Abercrombie…
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Berlin on Ice
Germans are reknowned around the world for their strict beer purity laws and their extensive beer culture including plentiful beer gardens and beer halls. One cocktail bar at a time, Berlin is working to shake that out-dated notion for this German city. The bartender at Immertreu has very strong opinions on cocktails which you can…
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First Impressions of Berlin
On the 10 minute walk from the U-Bahn station to our apartment on our first morning in Berlin, we noticed a string of seemingly abandoned warehouses along the riverfront to our right and a string of towering apartment complexes tagged with graffiti on our left – not the warmest welcome. After a few days of…
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Boulder is for Beer
Colorado produces the most beer in the country. Like all good beer-lovers, we challenged ourselves to average a new brewery a day for our month in Boulder. We almost succeeded. (But if you count duplicates, we passed with flying colors.) Thanks to the Pittsburgh beer scene (especially Wednesday tastings at Carson Street Deli), we were…
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2 More Things to Do in Missouri
Driving across the country, we received recommendations to see the arch in St Louis and stop for a BBQ lunch in Kansas City. The problem with many mid-sized cities is no one really knows anything about them beyond a kitschy tourist highlight. While the arch is huge, and Kansas City has great BBQ (worth way more…
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An introduction to Hungarian Wines
Hungary doesn’t even have a shelf in most wine stores around the world. If you search for it, you can usually find a sweet white wine from the Tokaj region or a drinkable red blended wine from the Eger region because of its catchy name “Bull’s Blood”. And that’s a shame. In Hungary, there are…
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Ruin Pubs and Romkocsma
Budapest has recently opened many a slick wine bar and has more than its fair share of smoky dive bars. What makes the Budapest night life unique though is its “ruin pubs”. The only common element to them appears to be that they are bars in buildings that probably should have been torn down. Old…
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Vienna in November
Vienna in late November has frigid temperatures, short days, and lots of cloud cover. At first glance, why anyone would want to visit or even go outside is a mystery. But the Viennese go out in droves to crowd the many Christmas markets sprinkled throughout the city. Every major church, shopping thoroughfare, museum, and park…
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