Category: travels
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5 tips for taking a train in Italy
Originally posted on Plated: By Claire Lardizabal FLORENCE, Italy – Getting to the food stories I would write in Florence meant I had to make it there on the Rome-Firenza train after my international flight. Mostly, the only time trains are used in Missouri are to get to Chicago so venturing from Florence to Rome…
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All Aboard to Florence, Italy
I boarded my plane on the way to my “Will Write for Food” study abroad program in Florence, Italy, equally nervous yet excited for the next five weeks to come. My plane ticket — my first huge purchase as a 22-year-old — took me from St. Louis to a brief stop in Montreal, then onward…
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Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Spring break. The midway point between spring semester. The timeout before the last quarter of the school year. For the past three years, it has been my saving grace from stress. I’ve gone everywhere with my longtime travel buddy/boyfriend, learning how to travel on a college (read: low) budget. I chose Cancun because I have…
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
My parents moved to Abu Dhabi this past summer, and my siblings and I visited during Christmas break to get a glimpse of their new desert life on the Arabian peninsula.
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