Thoughts and Tips #43 - May 26, 2015

In this issue:

-BBC - Travel - Debunking foreign myths
-World's 10 Most Important Memorial Museums
-Christiania | Copenahgen's Enchanting Hippy World
-The Saturday City: Leon | Nomadic Matt's Travel Site
-The Best Hikes in the United States and Canada
-How To Order a Beer in Australia - state by state - Contented Traveller
-The Top 7 Cruise Planning Myths... Busted!
-6 Travel Tips to Help You Fly Through Airport Security

BBC - Travel - Debunking foreign myths

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Whether it is the notion that Brits only drink tea or that all Argentineans dance tango, cultural stereotypes can overshadow a coutnry's true nuances.

For a more authentic take on the world, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora.com to ask locals: "What do you think every foreigner should know about your country?"...
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World's 10 Most Important Memorial Museums

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum / Photo Michio Ide

While tragedy can strike unexpectedly and senselessly, commemoration is an essential part of dealing with its consequences. As these ten memorial museums and remembrance halls demonstrate, cultural awareness, public education and memory can at least in part, aid the recovery process.  From the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to the House of Slaves in Senegal, here are ten of the most important memorial museums in the world...
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Christiania | Copenahgen's Enchanting Hippy World

Mural in Christiania / Hannah Bergin

Copenhangen is a remarkably neat city, with flat-fronted building that line immaculate streets and a distinctively horizontal skyline broken only by an occasional church spire. But venture a little outside the centre, across the Knippelsbro Bridge and through a series of increasingly narrow streets. Nestles there, between what appears to be blocks of abandoned, vandalized buildings overgrown with wild foliage, is the beautiful chaos of a remarkably developed and decidedly content hippy community...
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The Saturday City: Leon | Nomadic Matt's Travel Site

Located in northwest Nicaragua, Leon is a college town often overlooked by tourists who stay south near Granada, Ometepe, and the beaches. However, given that the area has so much to do, I expected a lot of tourists but instead found mostly empty hostels and few gringos wandering the streets during my visit...
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The Best Hikes in the United States and Canada

Love hiking but don't fancy carrying your tent and other overnight stuff up that mountain? Then you'll love our upcoming posts about the best (half) day hikes in various countries all over the world. Most of them can be done by anyone who has a bit of stamina and a passion for the great outdoors! Today we're starting with the best hikes in the United States and Canada...
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How To Order a Beer in Australia - state by state - Contented Traveller

Ordering a beer in Australia is easy, but ordering a beer in every state (in) Australia is not so easy.

Sure, you can walk into any pub (hotel) and say, "I'll have a beer mate", and yes, you will get a beer. However, ordering a beer correctly in Australia is not that easy, as it varies from state to state or territory to territory, if you like...
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The Top 7 Cruise Planning Myths... Busted!

Frequent cruisers and travel agents mean well when they give you advice about when, where, and how to cruise. Everybody and their Uncle Larry has an opinion about cabin choices, itineraries, and ship choice...
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6 Travel Tips to Help You Fly Through Airport Security

Image copyright: Teri Verbickis

I'm a pretty patient person, but my tolerance is tested in a line at the Motor Vehicle Department, the grocery store (why do they have 15 registers and only open two when there are 75 people in line!) and airport security...
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