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The best for long, lazy, and wine filled lunches.

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We hit the jackpot with this place. It's called Cayo Algodon Grande and it's an awesome island. Just watch the episode....words cannot express the colors and...

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You don't have to read books about travel for a story to inspire you to travel. We highly recommend the following 15 titles to jumpstart your next adventure.

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Which one would you choose?From the Panama to Bali, there are gorgeous islands all around the globe where the oceanfront setting is almost as beautiful as the low cost of living—making them excellent additions to your retirement plan. For example, you could live comfortably off $3,000 per month on the French-influenced island of Las Terrenas in the Dominican Republic or on as little as $1,600 per month on Isla Colón off the Caribbean coast of Panama.

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Did your area make this year’s list?

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Once, Americans rode the rails for charbroiled steak, golden French toast, and prunes.

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The luxury travel advisors in the prestigious Virtuoso network have made their travel forecasts for next year.

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Since first arriving on the fabled Indonesian island in the 1970s, Canadian John Hardy has gone from jewelry-brand founder to environmental trailblazer. He and his wife, Cynthia, a silver-haired California native, are well-known around Bali for establishing the “bamboo cathedral” Green School, which instructs future generations in how to be eco-savvy. Some 500 children under the age of 12 now attend, and there are similar projects underway in New Zealand, South Africa, and Mexico.

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An exclusive excerpt from the new biography ‘Down and Out In Paradise’, reveals the origin story of the unknown New York chef who became a best-selling writer and a TV star

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From old favorites to long-awaited special trips, these are the drinks destinations at the top of bartenders’ post-pandemic travel lists.

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This is a pretty cool story really but it’s hard to imagine how no one could have seen the artists at work. This had to have taken a while. This aboveground vent belongs to a former nuclear shelter in Prague that was used during the Cold War. The Folimanka Shelter used to be a state secret but now it’s been open to the public as a historical site. This vent however has stuck out for quite a while and no one has seemed to be able to figure out what to do with it until now. As landmarks go it’s

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The Bergensbanen departs Oslo Central Station several times a day. On the voyage—which averages seven hours—the high-altitude railway line roars across the Hardangervidda plateau, passing landscapes more breathtaking than you can imagine. It barrels through green valleys, sparkling lakes, dense forests, snow-capped mountains, gushing waterfalls, winding rivers, dramatic fjords and a total of 180 tunnels before rolling into its terminus. To say that the train from Oslo to Bergen has the power to make you focus on the journey and forget about the destination isn't overselling it, not by a long shot.

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Pristine, wild and extremely hot, the isles of Stromboli and Filicudi, near Sicily, have such a reputation for arousing visitors that locals say they can work magically erotic wonders. [CNN] Also see ... Forget Ibiza and Magaluf: this obscure Italian island could be the world’s new sex capital. Wild, sizzling; refined, Filicudi – along with its big sister, Stromboli – is a Mediterranean beauty which plays host to constant little eruptions (and not all of them are volcanic). www.trunqd.com/post/56122 These islands have become sex pilgrimage sites for many tourists who claim the islands raise libidos, enticing newlywed couples and women trying to conceive to flock to the islands. www.trunqd.com/post/56123

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A Fascinating Short Sea Story SS Warrimoo The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the master, Captain John Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo’s position was LAT 0º 31′ N and LON 179 30′ W. The date was 31 December 1899. “Know what this means?” First Mate Payton broke in, “We’re only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line”. Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime. He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ships position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed. The calm weather & clear night worked in his favour. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The consequences of this bizarre position were many: The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer. The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900. This ship was therefore not only in: Two different days, Two different months, Two different years, Two different seasons But in two different centuries – all at the same time.

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When train doors close, these jingles warn riders to stand clear.

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Atlas Obscura recently shared a map celebrating one particularly noteworthy milestone: reviewing 10,000 sites on The Atlas. 

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Much is known about the dedication, conformity and daytime life of the city’s salarymen but this show, as ever, tried to do something different and saw Bourdain going in search of the city’s dark, extreme and bizarrely fetishistic underside. It starts with quite an intense intro featuring him talking about his early experiences in Tokyo whilst sat in the New York Bar in the Park Hyatt Hotel; the very same bar which featured quite famously in ‘Lost In Translation‘. Beyond The Movies https://tokyofoxbeyondthemovies.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown-japan/

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No need to hop across the pond to visit sprawling, storied castles—you can get your Downton Abbey fix at these amazing U.S. palaces, from Hawaii to Kentucky.

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Could the company's latest play to own the experience economy transport me virtually around the world? I made sangria with drag queens in Portugal, meditated with sleepy sheep in Scotland, and visited stray dogs in Ukraine to find out just how far Zoom-powered travel could take me.

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Adventure photographer and veteran van-dweller James Barkman tells it like it is

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On day 2 of our Micronesia adventure we head to the ancient ruins of Nan Madol and one of the world's most photogenic natural wonders, Kepirohi Waterfall in ...

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For a taste of incredible — and relatively unknown — French wines, head to the picturesque region of Jura.

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Since the birth of the USA on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, the country has been at war for 93% of its existence. It all started with the American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783. Now, to most Americans that conflict was more than necessary. Had it not taken place it is doubtful that King George III of Great Britain and his Parliament would have simply waved goodbye to the Thirteen Colonies and wished them well for the future.

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Cerulean plunge pools, rocky grottos, and coursing cascades: You'll want to dive right into these secret swimming holes in the U.S.

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To sweat or not sweat, there’s the perennial problem faced by guys all the time. Let’s be honest – all of us are afraid to annoy our surrounding colleagues and peers with wet and (sometimes stinky) underarms. To prevent this unwanted situation, the Tropika Club team is going to help differentiate a deodorant from an antiperspirant, and explain which one might be more ideal for you. Read on. Simply put, we’ll do whatever we require to do to smell good– or at least not scent bad– yet does that indicate it’s far better to regulate the smell our bodies naturally generate with antiperspirant or to stop the problem at its resource with an antiperspirant?

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A laundry list of lessons learned from a lockdown summer spent grinding gravel and exploring trails in the Great Northwest

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Peyote comes from northern Mexico and southern Texas, and has a long history as a hallucinogenic drug. Here's everything you need to know.

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For over a century, like the other Hawaiian Islands, Hawai‘i Island depended heavily on sugar cane as a major component of its economy. The story of how sugar barons controlled the Kingdom, Territory, and State of Hawai‘i in the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth need not be recounted here. Global competition ultimately brought an end to Hawaiian sugar, and today it continues in a much reduced form only on Maui. Even so, if we look closely, we can still see the influence of sugar, especially in North Kohala. Sugar production needed water, an enormous amount of water. To produce a pound of sugar required up to 500 gallons of water. One million gallons was required every day for even a relatively small 100-acre plantation.

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A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched: Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand. Th...

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43 giant busts of U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

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