Falling in love vs Being in Love: What You Gain from Traveling to the Same Place More than Once
There are an almost unlimited number of amazing places to see and explore. Your list of spots to go grows daily. But unfortunately your travel resources don’t. You have limited time, money and energy for traveling. So why bother traveling to the same place more than once?
Go Travel: Cape Town Wine Farms
Who likes wine? Who likes stunning scenery, friendly service and deep fried olives (really)? Alright then, here’s a tip. Go visit Vrede en Lust wine farm in Franschhoek, South Africa.
Why Bother Traveling to Small Towns?
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Global travelers tend to go to the extremes when they encounter small towns. They over glorify them for their humble quaintness or resent their slowness. Either way, travelers move through small towns quickly. We see small towns as convenient stopovers on the way to the main attractions; the half way mark between bright city lights […]
What makes a great travel spot?
Why is Cape Town the top travel destination in the world? According to Tripadvisor it’s more beloved by travelers than the serene beaches of Indo, the mountains of Switzerland or the frenzy of New York. So what makes it so great? After two years in the Mother City, I have a hunch.
Appreciate Where You Are
Cape Town is the number one travel destination in the world.
Its beaches, mountains, history and wine have launched it ahead of all the other Destination Greats like Sydney, Rio and, the ultimate cool city, Barcelona. Hey, I’m not making this up. Tripadvisor said so. And who dare question the great Tripadvisor? As a current resident of this fair city it’s an honor to know my home of the last two years is topping bucket lists across the globe.
And it’s also a little strange.
African taxis: friend or foe?
South Africa doesn’t need roller coasters for thrills. It doesn’t need video games or ping ball machines. It has taxis. For just over three rand (about 40 cents) you get not only transportation but also an…experience.
TIA
Acronyms are the new vocabulary for everyone from the CEO to the LMFAO Facebook-e. We go to university at MSU and then take the LSAT to go work as a CPA or maybe in PR. Did I just mix up the job that goes with the test? I’ll sort it out ASAP. We live in the EU or the AU or the USA and listen to old Beatles songs of the USSR. We fear AIDS but look forward to the end of the week when we can celebrate TGIF with our BFF. Our alphabet is maximised while our vocabulary is reduced to what was meant to be just the building blocks of greater, more complete words.
In the midst of all this letter shuffling and strategic abbreviation we often manage to dumbify our language. We lose the nuances of the longer words come to be represented by only their first letter.
But at other times we manage to create a concise and even precise way to express surprisingly complex concepts. We take the art of not using two words when one will do and pump its veins with acronymic steroids. While we may ruin ourselves with LOL, we simultaneously come up with TIA.








