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Fighting fires in France
Tonight’s European adventure was fighting brush fire in the French coastal town of Menton. As I was returning to my hostel after dinner downtown, I saw a plume of black smoke rising from the hill in front of me. Typically smoke from an intentional fire burns white, but this was a dense column of black.…
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Hoofing it through hostels
Staying in hostels has been its own travel experience, and the places vary greatly. I’ve had a room with as few as four beds in it and one with as many as 20. Most are single sex, but one morning I opened my eyes to see the silhouette of a statuesque blond brushing her as…
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Paris to Nice
Paris was at first overwhelming, but my experience improved significantly once I found that you could rent public bicycles by the hour. There’s something magical about flying through streets like blood through veins. And something you may not know if you’ve never ridden in a city is that a bike puts you just a bit higher…
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Foreign Foraging
Given that I didn’t want to waste a touring day, I headed out into the dreary rain determined to take some pictures of the town I’d arrived in just yesterday, but by the time I got there, it had really started pouring so I decided to go looking for a supermarket instead. After talking the…
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You are gay aren’t you?
After having had an excellent first experience couch surfing, I decided to give it a second shot. This time, however, had completely different results. Although my host had agreed to let me surf, she failed to give me her contact information up until the time I arrived in her town of Nancy. Once in town,…
