Study Spanish in Guatemala

Study Spanish in Guatemala

Travel to Guatemala is not only gorgeous but cheap. It is one of the cheapest, or I should say, best-valued places on the planet to study full Spanish immersion. If you don’t believe me, do a Google search yourself.  For the price of a pair of Lucky jeans. You can get the following:

private Spanish [...]

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Living high on the hog: Travel to Guatemala on $9 a day

Living high on the hog: Travel to Guatemala on $9 a day

While $9 may seem like a lot or nothing according to the travel style you have perfected, it is a reasonable sum to spend for night’s lodging and food for one day in San Pedro, Guatemala. Every country has those towns that are amazingly beautiful and dirt cheap and San Pedro is Guatemala’s little slice [...]

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Adios Mio! He is everywhere in Guatemala

Adios Mio! He is everywhere in Guatemala

Don’t forget your rosaries and holy water when you get to San Pedro, Guatemala nestled in beautiful Lake Atitlan. Evidence of the Creator and son are ubiquitous in this local enclave. If you don’t believe me, check out these photos.

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Jesus is a chair?  (Travel to Guatemala)

Jesus is a chair? (Travel to Guatemala)

One can’t travel to Central America and not be reminded that Catholicism runs deep and wide. So, as my journey in this country came to it’s ultimate conclusion, can you guess how pleasantly surprised I was to find the pinnacle of tributes to the ‘J’ man? The Jesus Chair! Well, there he was, sitting in [...]

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Life on Mars- Mui Ne, Vietnam

Life on Mars- Mui Ne, Vietnam

If Vietnam were your leg, Mui Ne would be located right around your ankle, just above Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Not a hot spot on many travel itineraries like Hue or Hoi An, but Mui Ne houses the most amazing martian like red sand dunes that you won;t see anywhere else.
Pair the natural beauty [...]

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OMG, It’s a Wiener Dog in….Poland

OMG, It’s a Wiener Dog in….Poland

In my 2nd installment of OMG, it’s a Weiner Dog in…., I want to feature my favorite long dogs in my favorite country, Poland. In Poland the dachshund is so revered, they hold a doxie parade in Krakow (link is Polish but the photos aren’t) every Aug/Sept. Poland’s jamnik (dachshund) (yom-nik) is all around as [...]

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Photos of Krakow, Poland

Photos of Krakow, Poland

Krakow is the most beautiful city in Poland. It’s central square square is unmatched, it has one of the oldest universities in Europe, and thanks to luck, it was not destroyed during WWII.

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Top 10 Things to Do in Paris

Top 10 Things to Do in Paris

Paris, oh Paris. Literature and fantasies live up to this city being the most beautiful in the world. She has been through a lot throughout the years with civil wars and foreign occupations. Just think that Hitler ordered Major General Dietrich von Choltitz to destroy Paris if the Allies forced the Nazis out. Much to [...]

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Photos of the Auschwitz Camp

Photos of the Auschwitz Camp

Going to Auschwitz and its sister camp, Auschwitz-Bikenau is a extremely painful experience. The first time I went was in 1998 and returned again in 2007.
To get to camps, you must go by way of Krakow and take a train to Oswiecim (ohshe-venshum). From there you can take local buses or pay a few zloty [...]

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OMG, It’s a wiener dog….in Hungary!

OMG, It’s a wiener dog….in Hungary!

Anyone who knows me knows I have an unhealthy obsession with dachshunds. It started in childhood with 6 (yes, 6, my mother was a bit of a nut about them too) and continues today. My current tally is 3 (tweenie red, dapple, and chunky brown), a x-mas present from ‘guess who?’ my mother.
In saying this, [...]

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