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California Coastal Meets Spain in Santa Barbara

Jenny United States, Worlds January 16, 2015

This week, as part of Hipmunk.com’s #HipmunkCityLove campaign, I’m highlighting my favorite college city, Santa Barbara. I spent what I’d consider the best year of my life (so far!) studying abroad my junior year of college in Granada, Spain. When I returned to Santa ...Read More

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A Visit to Santa Barbara that Won’t Break the Bank

Jenny United States, Worlds January 14, 2015

This week, as part of Hipmunk.com’s #HipmunkCityLove campaign, I’m paying homage to Santa Barbara and my beloved college days. Being a college student implies Top Ramen and student loans. However, being a college student in Santa Barbara, one of the more expensive cities in ...Read More

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The Glory Days of College Living in Santa Barbara

Jenny United States, Worlds January 12, 2015

It’s January in Barcelona, and constantly sunny and warm(ish). I’m blissfully reminded of the only other place I’ve ever sunbathed in January: Santa Barbara, my home for three years. This week, as part of Hipmunk.com’s #HipmunkCityLove campaign, I’d like to show off my favorite ...Read More

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Changing the Way I Travel

Jenny Italy, Worlds January 6, 2015

It seems almost oxymoronic to say during my third year abroad, but I’ve noticed a change in how I travel this year. Kind of along the lines of, I don’t. Well, not as much. When I first returned to Spain in August, I had ...Read More

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Road Trip Through France (Kind of like a Medieval Route 66)

Jenny France, Worlds October 6, 2014

La Voiture. /vwäˈtu̇(ə)r/ n. Language: French. Meaning: The Car. A 4-wheel vehicle, typically powered by internal combustion, that’s the essential component to any road trip. And the French word makes even a minivan sound sexy. I’m no fan of the automobile. I’d be happy if I ...Read More

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That Time I Witnessed a Game of Thrones Episode

Jenny Barcelona and Cataluña, Spain, Worlds September 15, 2014

Juego de Tronos. /ˈxue.ɣo de ˈtɾo.nos/ Proper n. Language: Spanish. Meaning: Game of Thrones, a violently bloody and outrageously popular semi-porno TV series based in the Middle Ages. If I even had to define this for you, you’re living under a rock. The young ...Read More

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Playing Tourist in my Home State: Yosemite National Park

Jenny United States, Worlds August 18, 2014

Yosemite. /joʊ.ˈsɛ.mɪ.ti/ Proper Noun. “Not just a great valley, but a shrine to human foresight, the strength of granite, the power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra,” according to the National Park Service. Just don’t feed the ...Read More

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Devouring Asia with Savor Oakland

Jenny United States, Worlds July 31, 2014

Pan-Asian Town /pan ˈeɪʒ.ən taʊn/ n. The new (and more P.C.) way to speak of a Chinatown that is not only Chinese. Asia’s more than just one country, people. For how complex a system language is, it has a funny way of simplifying things. And for ...Read More

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Round-the-World Travel in One Windy City

Jenny United States, Worlds July 8, 2014

Diversity. /dɪ.ˈvɹ̩ː.sɪ.ti/ n. Varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds, skin tones and body piercings; the reason to travel, or, in cases like Chicago, to never set foot outside the city. Although my re-entry into the U.S. was a gradual process of confusion and burritos, what ...Read More

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Weekend Escape to Bordeaux

Jenny France, Worlds June 2, 2014

My friend Kaitlin is a runner, and the rest of us don’t move all that much but like wine. So when she told us about a 10K race through the vineyards near Bordeaux in May, our tight-knit group of American chicas decided a weekend ...Read More

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