Category: Travel and Culture
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Understanding the Impact of Travel on Perspective
There’s a classic question:Does reading a lot teach you more, or does traveling a lot? And my classic answer is: both. Because theory and reality are different. When you meet someone new, the most important thing is the first impression. That first impression shapes the person in your mind, and it becomes difficult to shake…
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Hercules, NoDo, Seville
As every city has own stories and myths, every city has own unique symbols, heroes and legends; Seville has also plenty of these. Among them, Hercules and NoDo symbols were the best representative and the most noticeable of the city that you can see them at the every corner of the city. At the same…
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Berlin in Berlin
‘Order in Chaos, Chaos in Order’ This is how I can define Berlin in one sentence. 9 November 1989 was the time that Berlin Wall falled. The wall was not the only one was collapsed but also the old world. Eastern Germans were not the only one who were liberated but also the world. The…
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Prague
Intro In his trip to Eastern Europe under Soviet Union, Gabriel García Márquez was describing Leipzig as shabby and depressing. It was not only about the system and life style but also about the atmosphere of city. In his point of view, nobody was happy, no smiley people on the street and maximum melancholy on…
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A Serious Business- RAKI/RAKIA
I told my friends that ‘Raki’ is the drink we can say traditional. They ask me what we play or what we do when we drink or whether we drink that in party. I said drinking is not a game in my country, it is a serious business. It is only time that you can…
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