Travel and Leisure

Praia da Gralha: Portugal's Gorgeous Quiet Beach

Located almost directly in the middle of the Portugal coast, Praia da Gralha is a gorgeous and quiet beach that is the perfect place to spend the day. During the tourist offseason, the traffic grinds to a halt allowing you to make this your own isolated beach. With sloping sand dunes and crystal blu Read More

The Portuguese Early Gothic Style of the Alcobaça Monastery

In the heart of the Oeste Subregion in Alcobaça lies a medieval monastery that embodies everything beautiful about the Portuguese early gothic style, the Mosteiro de Alcobaça. Admiring this grand structure from the outside, ancient stories of love and tragedy are visible in the origina Read More

The Old and New of Klaipeda Lithuania

Downtown Klaipeda and Its Arts and Crafts Festival Feeling like a city that wants to desperately escape its Soviet past, Klaipeda, Lithuania has a mix of the old and new. The former Prussian capital retains its discrete German architecture in the Old Town coupled with the remaining tower of t Read More

Iguazu Falls: Most Beautiful Waterfall in the World (Photos)

The Iguazu Falls are quite simply one of the most dramatic, verdant, and beautiful natural wonders in the world. Located at the intersection of the borders between Brazil and Argentina, these magical waterfalls are inscribed on the list of New 7 Wonders of the Natural World and are also a Unesco Wor Read More

Istanbul, Turkey: Facts, Travel, and Points of Interest

If traveling many centuries back in time is on your agenda, then Istanbul is just the place for you. Being more than 2500 years old, the name of this city was changed twice; from Byzantium to Constantinople to the current Istanbul. Set across the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul was a much-coveted city th Read More

My Quick Trip to Dubai: A Two-Day Itinerary

"Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert." The first time I understood the reality of this quote by Soroosh Shahrivar was as soon as my plane started descending. From the window, I could see a desert with golden sand, when in a fraction of a second, Read More