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Tag Archives: food
Budapest: good food and good times
Budapest is a romantic city, so I was not surprised to discover on the Buda side a beautiful yellow house where Casanova lived for a few weeks, doing what he did best.
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Krakow: from communist chic to copernicus
Three months ago, a brown, communist-style envelope had landed on my doorstep. The invitation announced an “official and obligatory celebration” - a communist chic birthday - at Klub Feniks in Krakow
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Celeb-watching, cultured living, and more – in D.C.
Having spent our glorious university years in Washington D.C., my friends and I recently decided to reconvene in the U.S. capital for a walk down memory lane.
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New Year's Resolutions
In this Southern North American region, it is expected of the women to make impassioned New Year's resolutions to lose weight and look younger.


The Unholy Union of Starbucks and “Juno”