Tag: travel
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Message for U.S. Citizens Europe Travel Alert
United States Embassy London Message for U.S. Citizens Europe Travel Alert May 1, 2017 The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout Europe. This Travel Alert expires on September 1, 2017. Recent, widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate that the Islamic State of Iraq…
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An expat in Stockholm is an award winning travel photographer
Lola Akinmade Åkerström, Multi-Award Winning Travel Photographer: B.W.I.E 10th Anniversary Shero Black Women in Europe Blog™ 10th Anniversary notes: I picked Lola as a Black Women in Europe Blog™ 10th Anniversary Shero not only because of her enormous photography talent (my Swede was impressed with her camera when he observed it draped around her neck…
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Nice things happen to me in Sweden – Meeting Lisa R. Mitchell
It is nice that I finally met Lisa R. Mitchell who is in town researching her upcoming book, checking out movies at the Stockholm Film Festival and otherwise discovering Stockholm on her way from London and on route to Paris. I also got to meet her cool cousin Karen. Hi Karen! A bit about Lisa:…
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Nice things happen to me in Sweden – SJ travel guarantee refund
What started out not nice turned out to be nice in the end. After experiencing delays on two journeys on SL, (the Swedish national train system) this summer I contacted SL via Twitter to see if they would give me financial compensation. I only thought about it after reading about an SL train from Stockholm…
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