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This is a guest contribution from Adelina Benson. Are stereotypes stopping you from seeing the world? You are not alone. However, there are some stereotypes you have to abandon quickly and visit these amazing countries: Germany Most people see Germany as a country of workaholics who don’t know how toContinue Reading

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I’m not sure why I never wrote about our jaunt to Arromanches before. I wrote about our jaunt to Pointe du Hoc and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. But I never wrote anything about Arromanches. Hmm… Well, what better day to fix that than on June 6th in memoryContinue Reading

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I wanted to save writing about our jaunt to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial this past summer for a special occasion. Veteran’s Day presented the perfect opportunity. However, I wasn’t able to get it posted in time, so sadly I’m a day late. I’ve always wanted to visit NormandyContinue Reading

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We docked in Le Havre, France, on the last day of our British Isles cruise. Le Havre is a gateway to France’s Normandy region, somewhere I’ve long wanted to jaunt. Mainly because I’ve been curious about the D-Day beaches. I partly picked the cruise because it afforded a chance toContinue Reading

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When we went to Istanbul I was hopeful we’d get to jaunt to Gallipoli, site of a World War I battlefield. I’d never visited a WWI battlefield before. I thought that might be a pretty powerful experience. Sadly, it was a bit of a commitment and we opted to hitContinue Reading

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Check out this marvelous Top 25 Dark Tourist Spots infographic from Baltic Travel Company. This is one of the neatest dark tourism lists/infographics I’ve seen yet. There’s a few places on here I haven’t seen on previous lists. (Such as numbers 2, 9, 17 and 18.) With a bit o’luck,Continue Reading

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While updating our Recommended Ghost Tours page today, I decided to include ghost tours from our affiliate, Viator. I had intended only to add ones for the United States, because I guess I figured that’s all they’d have. To my delight, I found a bunch of haunted European tours too!Continue Reading

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Mysterious Phantom Mens Adult Costume This past Friday May 25, 2012 the musical Phantom of the Opera celebrated it’s 25th anniversary. It might be a pretty obscure anniversary to some (okay, most), but it was something I wanted to write about. But how to tie it in to a travelContinue Reading

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What really fascinates me is different perception of paranormal activities, psychic abilities and magick practises in different areas of the World. Have you – living in your little corner of the Planet – ever thought that what you consider pretty normal, can be deadly somewhere else? Allow me to takeContinue Reading

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2010 is a big celebration year for my husband and I. It was going to be anyway. It will start on September 7 with Wayne’s birthday. A week later I turn 40. Then two days after that we’ll celebrate 15 years married (not to mention 24 total together). However, sinceContinue Reading

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Today, in honor of Flashes in the Dark posting my story, “Between the Wolf and the Dog,” I’m going to make a sort of a different Haunt Jaunt. In fact, today you might notice an International theme. I’ll launch the journey with this post on France’s Morvan forest. Later thisContinue Reading

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My friend Jade Walker recently got married. For their honeymoon, she and her husband spent a month touring Europe. (That was their dream. They’d been saving for it ever since I first met her, back when I was writing for Families.com.) When she got back she mentioned they’d had anContinue Reading