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Traveller, tourist, explorer ✈ Freelance travel journalist sharing news and tips for travellers ✈ Contact me at www.stachiew.com/about-mark-stachiew/
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Central Portugal boasts these 10 incredible attractions that you need to add to your bucket list

Central Portugal boasts these 10 incredible attractions that you need to add to your bucket list

Experiences Not Stuff — With so much to see and do, it's no wonder that Portugal was just named Europe's Leading Destination at the 30th World Travel Awards. While most visitors focus on the country’s most popular tourist regions like the Algarve for its beaches or the Douro Valley for its vineyards, Central Portugal is an area that is sometimes overlooked. Boasting incredible UNESCO World Heritage Sites, stunning scenery, incredible food and drink, not to mention friendly and welcoming residents, savvy travellers have been coming here for years to experience some incredible attractions, like these 10 outstanding examples.
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Into the desert lands of Puebla, Mexico

Into the desert lands of Puebla, Mexico

Taste & Travel magazine — Puebla is one of Mexico’s most celebrated cities for gastronomy and is famous for such flavourful dishes as mole poblano and chiles en nogada, but if you drive just a few hours south of the city, through the semi-arid lands near the border with Oaxaca, everything changes.
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Neighbourly Nashville

Neighbourly Nashville

Taste & Travel magazine — For many visitors, Nashville is synonymous with the famous honky-tonks on lower Broadway Street like Tootsies Orchid Lounge and Robert’s Western World, but venture a little further from the bright lights of downtown and you’ll discover Music City’s many unique neighbourhoods, each with its own special character, flavours and attractions.
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Nature's Bathtub

Nature's Bathtub

Canadian Geographic — Once a stopping point for workers carving out the Alaska Highway, Liard River Hot Springs is an oasis in northern British Columbia.
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This Arkansas Purse Museum Celebrates How Women Express Themselves Through Their Handbags - VITA ...

This Arkansas Purse Museum Celebrates How Women Express Themselves Through Their Handbags - VITA ...

VITA — A woman's purse is more than just a utilitarian bag. It's also an extension of her personal space and part of her identity, themes that are explored in the delightful ESSE Purse Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of just two museums in the world dedicated exclusively to the beloved fashion accessory.
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Exploring the best of Turkey

Exploring the best of Turkey

Canada.com — When I told friends and family that I was travelling to Turkey, they worried that it wasn't safe, then when I got there, the headlines back home spoke of the country's military incursion into Syria, but the fighting might well have been on another continent, because I was 1,500 kilometres removed from it and in this land that has witnessed conflict for millennia, it had virtually no effect on everyday life.
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Slowing down time in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park

Slowing down time in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park

Canada.com — The stars are so plentiful and so bright in the night sky above Grasslands National Park that the Milky Way is casting a shadow. I lie on my back to count shooting stars and while I wait for the next streak of light, I mark the passage of time by watching the constellations slowly wheel overhead.
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I survived the Newfoundland cod wars

I survived the Newfoundland cod wars

Canada.com — As we drove by the shore of a remote Newfoundland bay at sunset, we spotted a man playing a bodhran, a traditional Irish drum. It couldn't have been more picturesque. We stopped to talk to him, but my travelling companion hid herself in the back of the van.
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Surviving a Taiwanese fireworks festival where rockets are fired at you and not the sky

Surviving a Taiwanese fireworks festival where rockets are fired at you and not the sky

Canada.com — The night is filled with smoke and noisy explosions and the air is perfumed with the smell of gunpowder. I'm in a crowd surrounded by excited people wearing motorcycle helmets and heavy jackets. Their hands are covered with protective gloves and their faces are wrapped in towels, and some are carrying plexi-glass shields.
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Following the trail of Grey Owl to Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park

Following the trail of Grey Owl to Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park

o.canada.com — "Far enough away to gain seclusion, yet within reach of those whose genuine interest prompts them to make the trip, Beaver Lodge extends a welcome to you if your heart is right." - Grey Owl My heart was ready for the trek to Grey Owl's cabin, but the weather forecast was not good.
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A new vocabulary for describing travel emotions

A new vocabulary for describing travel emotions

The Globe and Mail — The English language is thought to have more words than any other, but when it comes to vocabulary to convey the complex emotions we experience when we travel, it could definitely use a few more.
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Exploring Oaxaca, one of Mexico's top spots for eco-tourism

Exploring Oaxaca, one of Mexico's top spots for eco-tourism

Canadian Geographic Travel — We drive our ATV along the dark beach for hours looking for nesting sea turtles; overhead the Milky Way stretches out like a frozen firework display while powerful waves crash on the shore with a sound like roaring cannons.
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5 Awesome Things to Do the Next Time You Visit Montreal

5 Awesome Things to Do the Next Time You Visit Montreal

Men's Health — Yes, Montreal has an incredible food scene. (Poutine, sure, but also Haitian griot, Vietnamese pho, and Thai curry.) Yes, the city has a European vibe. (Mainly old Montreal—and also all the French words.) But the 514 has so much more to offer—especially if you’re looking for adventure. As a seventh-generation Montrealer, here’s what I tell my fit friends to do when they’re in town.
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