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Why it’s good to travel solo
I had spent most of the day gawking at the works of Renoir and Cezanne. So filled was I with emotion and inspiration that I thought I’d burst at any moment. I walked out of the museum and headed towards the sea. And there, with a hundred other promenaders, I breathed in the fresh sea…
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How a fiftysomething survived a motorbike tour of Ho Chi Minh
By hanging on to dear life, that’s how! Mwahahahaha I didn’t think I’d be 57 going around Ho Chi Minh on the back of a motorcycle, but there I was at fifty-plus-seven enjoying, and at the same time dreading, every minute of it. I first rode on the back of a motorcycle about two decades…
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The unexpected joys of traveling with grown-up children
Confession: I didn’t like going on vacations all that much when my children were younger. Yeah, sure, we were making core memories, but do those moments have to be so damn exhausting?! Mwahahaha I’m a single parent, which meant I had to do the work of two persons to make those core memories happen. But…
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Why you should visit M+ Museum
Because of a clerical error in my birth certificate, renewing my passport became a task of Herculean proportions. It involved procuring documents from different institutions, including a visit to the parish where I was baptized, the chaplain of which was a distant relative. But when finally my passport was delivered, I forgot I now had…
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Why it’s good to get off the grid
We may have been locked up in our homes for months on end, but it didn’t shield us from everything that’s been happening around the world. If anything, the lockdown served to make us more aware, and if I may say more hyper-aware, of current events. In fact, we’re so current we knew that an…
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