It’s 3:30 am at home and the queue for foreigners crawls toward the Immigration Officer’s window. My teeth need brushing and my make-up has long worn off; I’m not exactly looking my best for my first meeting with a local. Thankfully consolation rests in my hand— Oh, beloved document! A unique personal history, my passport [...]
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Travel Belles by definition love the open skies! So we are excited to announce that on August 10, we will be opening an OpenSky shop. What the heck’s an OpenSky shop? OpenSky is a new shopping platform where we will be able to share with you some of the products we love and use related [...]
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The word, “sherbet,” means “sweet” in the Middle Eastern world. Prepared with cooked fruit juices and considered a great anecdote to summer’s heat, sherbet originated in Turkey several centuries ago. Sherbet is similar to sorbet with one major difference: Sorbet does not contain milk or eggs, whereas sherbet does. Popular flavors today include: raspberry, lime, [...]
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Broken zippers got you down? Feel the need to travel with duct tape? Perhaps this is the year you need to release all that old baggage and acquire some new. Since we now must pay to check our bags, or alternately haul them on the plane with us, they should at least put a little [...]
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Is there a sandal comfortable enough to take you from a morning museo to passaggiata**, yet cute enough to wear with your flirtiest sundress or dressy black trousers? Up for a Travel Belles challenge, I set out for Shoe Fanatic Nirvana, aka Shoes on a Shoestring in Albuquerque, to find out. I’m not alone in [...]
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