10 Meditation Resources for Coping with Grief

This list has now grown to ten meditation resources for grief. (Updated December 2021.) Why these meditation resources for grief Due to the pandemic, many of us are coping with isolation and now the stress of returning to a “new normal”. Some of us have lost loved ones. What we are dealing with is grief. …

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Life on the Hanoi Train Tracks

How to experience life on the Hanoi train tracks by way of the famed Train Street. Updated August 2021: As of mid-October 2019, tourists are no longer allowed to stand outside by the rails of Train Street. However, you can go inside one of the bars lining the tracks and watch from there. Views would …

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D Day Tour of the Normandy Beaches

I wasn’t sure about a guided D Day tour of the Normandy Beaches because my obsession with the history of the Second World War means I envisioned exploring Normandy on my own. I wanted to wander without a timeline through the area that I had researched, read about, and obsessively watched on Band of Brothers …

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Kuala Lumpur Street Food: Part One

This is part one of this Kuala Lumpur street food guide. For part two of this Malay Street food tour, visit here. When I told people in Thailand that my next stop was Kuala Lumpur, multiple sources gushed: “Oh, the food there is the best.” So, naturally, the first thing that I did upon arrival …

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Malaysian Street Food Tour: Part 2

Our group of food tourists is dutifully following our guide through the rain of Kuala Lumpur on part two of this Malaysian Street Food Tour. If you’re joining from Part One of this tour then you know that our guide Fadly has already taken us to street-food stands and local haunts throughout the village of …

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The Must-Visit WWII Sites of Budapest

This post explores the Shoes on the Danube Promenade and the Dohány Street Synagogue, and the other must-visit WWII sites of Budapest. Sometimes simplicity makes for the most powerful memorials, and that is true of the Shoes on the Danube Promenade. I returned here multiple times when visiting Budapest. It is a beautiful and somber …

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