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Continue reading →: The Lost Sea: America’s Largest Underground Lake Flows in TennesseeTake an hour’s drive from Knoxville to Sweetwater, TN and you can find yourself at the The Lost Sea Adventure. The site is part of the historic Craighead Caverns and is America’s largest underground lake. The Lost Sea has earned further national (and international) attention with its membership of both…
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Continue reading →: Knoxville’s Williamswood Castle: A Legacy of Preservation & Labour of LoveMy day job comes with a lot of perks, and one of them was having the privilege of working remotely from a medieval Scottish castle. Except this castle is only half an hour from our office in Tennessee. Our crew had been working there for some time and we were…
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Continue reading →: Bulgakov’s Moscow: Cowardice is the Most Terrible of VicesTell me if you’ve heard this before: “Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste. I’ve been around for a long, long year, stole many a man’s soul and faith. And I was round when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain, Made…
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Continue reading →: Red Square Love: Moscow’s Most Iconic SquareI never imagined that I would spend the turn of my third decade in Moscow’s Red Square, until it happened. Visiting Russia had long held a top spot on my bucket list but always seemed out of grasp. When I earned my TESOL/TEFL certifications a few years ago, I started…
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Continue reading →: From Russia With Rap: An Ode to Slavic Hip Hop(TL, DR: Enjoy this Russian Rap Playlist, suckas. Also this blog is very NSFW.) Through my travels, I have fallen privy to unexpected information and earned some unconventional badges of expertise. It may come as a surprise, but for better or worse, I know my way around the core Russian rap scene.…
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Continue reading →: The Mad King of Bavaria’s Iconic Neuschwanstein CastleBoth Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles sit high in the mountains over the village of Hohenschwangau in Southern Bavaria near the Austrian border. Neuschwanstein is also known by the rest of the world as the Disney Sleeping Beauty castle. Look familiar? Designed by and built for “Mad” King Ludwig II in the…
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Continue reading →: Berlin, Germany’s Famous East Side Gallery“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Though his words were simply a battle cry from the West, they seemed to open the proverbial floodgates.
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Continue reading →: To Dachau, On a Crowded TramThe town of Dachau is a small and perhaps strategically beautiful community with impeccable landscaping, floral walkways, and cottage homes. Streets stretch under a large canopy of shade trees and are peppered with cafes, service stores, and boutiques. From our B&B in München, we took the S2 line toward Peterhausen…
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Continue reading →: Transylvanian Wonder: Medieval Biertan & Its Fortified ChurchPhoto below is shared from RomaniaTourism.com which credits Sorin Onisor: BIERTAN is a Transylvanian village in Sibiu County with around 1,500 people, founded by Saxons in the early 1200s. It served as the center of religious activity of Transylvanian Saxons for nearly three centuries, between the 1570s through the 1860s.…
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Continue reading →: Moscow & Izmailovo: A Tale of Two KremlinsMOSKVA (MOSCOW) KREMLIN A kremlin, the fancy Russian word for fortress, is not an entirely rare sight across Russia but only one has the distinction of being THE Kremlin. Moscow and its Kremlin were founded in the 12th century. Prior to the 1900s many people lived inside the Moscow Kremlin walls…
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Continue reading →: The Szekler Heart of TransylvaniaIn the Heart of Transylvania is Harghita County, home of the Szekelyfold. The Szekelers are a group of Magyar/Hungarian origins who formed a battalion of frontier guards that defended the land against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages.
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Continue reading →: O Lungo Drom, The Long Road“Fernweh” is an ache for distant places; a type of homesickness and longing to find or return to a place where one belongs, even if they have never been before. Fernweh is a wandering madness. …
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