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Category: Europe

Culture, Europe

An Incomplete Guide to Sicily in Quotes & Pictures

September 21, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 6 mins read

Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples), Agrigento, Sicily “The climate’s delicate; the air most sweet. Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing The common […]

Europe, Nomadism

What is this Feeling? …Nostalgia??

September 15, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Stunning views from my seat flying Catania, Sicily to Istanbul (on my way to Stockholm… I should not have opted to fly that way, and […]

Europe

Being versus Seeing

September 4, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

So, what are you doing here? They say it kindly—with honest curiosity—and they say it in Italian, but that is the question. The woman at […]

Culture, Europe, Food

Snapshot: Bar Willy

August 27, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

8:30a.m., Trastevere, Roma — 24 August 2015I begin the day with that most Italian of concoctions… il bar.Bar Willy sits at one corner of a […]

Europe, Nomadism

Why Am I Here?

August 22, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

2:00 a.m. Rome, Italy. Fiumicino Airport. I arrive haggard, disoriented and ready to drop after a red-eye from Detroit, a 12-hour layover in Amsterdam, and […]

Culture, Europe

Hostels: Beyond the Horror Movie Story

December 3, 2014May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Picture it: A group of Portuguese boys play ping pong and try not to spill beer. Behind them, Spanish girls converse– loudly– with strangers via […]

Europe

Three, Two, One, BUNGEE

July 15, 2013May 22, 2020 Toby 5 mins read

(Sorry, Mom—I know I promised I wouldn’t, but I really think you should be proud of me.) “Do one thing a day that scares you.”  […]

Culture, Europe, Poetry & Fiction

Story Time!

April 16, 2013May 22, 2020 Toby 8 mins read

The fairy chimneys, as it turns out, were the name that the genius, or over-romantic imagination, of someone in Cappadocia’s tourism department assigned to the […]

Europe

Toby and Alyssa Take on Istanbul

March 30, 2013May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

For the last six days I had the great pleasure of traveling with the beautiful, brilliant, best of friends, Alyssa Raven Thomas.  What a welcome […]

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