Tag: Tourism
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#57: Swarovski
This blog is a continuation of #56: The Heart of the Alps in which we visited Innsbruck, Austria. To begin, a relevant and humorous scene from the popular series Yellowstone: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tprs0QrUthg In the early 1890s, Daniel Swarovski registered a patent for a state-of-the-art machine designed to cut crystal with unprecedented precision. Born into a glass…
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#53: You Better Belize It (Part III: San Pedro)
This is the final in a three-part series that began with Blog #51: You Better Belize It (Part I: Mainland) and continued with Blog #52: You Better Belize It (Part II: Hopkins). Madonna’s famed hit La Isla Bonita (Spanish for “The Beautiful Island”) makes multiple references to the whimsical island of San Pedro, a place…
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#52: You Better Belize It (Part II: Hopkins)
This is a continuation of Blog #51: You Better Belize It (Part I: Mainland). The mainland portion of Belize, as we discovered in Blog #51, is a jungle replete with ancient Maya relics. Majestic temples rise from the rainforest floor while spooky caves littered with human skeletons stretch deep below the surface. Lest we forget…
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#51: You Better Belize It (Part I: Mainland)
A hop, skip, and a jump from the continental United States is the Central American nation of Belize. Snuggled between the Yucatan Peninsula and the Caribbean Sea, the country of Belize offers visitors equally easy access to ancient ruins, lush rainforests, and stunning beaches. Its growing popularity with North American tourists is evident at Philip…
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#39: London
The center of the world. At least, that’s what it felt like. Coming from a relatively new country like the United States, the history of London England is too much to fathom. Experiencing the traditions and architecture of “The Square Mile”, as the City of London proper is occasionally referred to, is something one could…
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#34: Pretzels and Beer
Continued from Blog #33: Munich Security Conference Hallway reputation. Personal brand. Leadership shadow. Regardless of the buzzwords we use to describe the way others think about us in the workplace, a bad reputation can be hard to shake. The concept isn’t exclusive to humans, either. Amsterdam banned the smoking of cannabis in public in an…
The Dark Passport 