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Tips for Planning a Great Trip to Australia

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Washington, DC Day Trips: Great Destinations Within 100 Miles

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Paris Night Bike Tour: A Wonderful Way to Explore the City

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#Travel tips by a couple that’s lived around the world for 15 years. Alex (NATJA) 🇺🇸 Bell 🐨 Home: Washington, DC. Email
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“There is something you must always remember. Yo “There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you”. Christopher Robin, Pooh’s Grand Adventure. 
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For anyone needing to hear these words after a challenging week. We’re not especially big on New Year’s resolutions, but something the last year made clear to us was the role of community. We are lucky to have some wonderful people in our lives, but this year community is something we want to build on. Have you made a New Year’s resolution and how is it going so far?
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#newyearresolution #newyear #community #travelcommunity #reflection #together #beautifuldestinations #seagulls #sunrise
Happy New Year! Here are our top nine, all from be Happy New Year! Here are our top nine, all from before COVID-19 took over our beautiful world. We wish you a happy new year and we hope 2021 starts to regain some sense and that we see you out there traveling and living your best life. 🥂🍾🥳
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#topnine2020 #happynewyear #travelinglife #beautifuldestinations #exploretheworld #grateful #passportready #readyfor2021
I am really honored to have been chosen as one of I am really honored to have been chosen as one of the two featured members of the month by the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) for December 2020! @natjaorg was founded in 1991 by a group of travel writers dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in travel journalism. It has grown to include well over 300 travel media and destination members today 🖊 ✈️ . Check out my interview, where I share a few of my most memorable trips along with some tips on travel journalism! https://www.natja.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=822:2020-december-featured-journalist-of-the-month--alexander-kallimanis&catid=29:featured-members&Itemid=191 Happy holidays to you and stay safe! 🎄😀 
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#travel #travelwriter #traveljournalist #traveljournalism #natja #travelbloggers #travelblogger #UCF #ChargeOn
Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes. With Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes. With a milestone birthday, you often find yourself reflecting back on other milestone years. My 30th birthday was actually quite the adventure. Alex had flown to Greece from our then home in Amsterdam ahead of me as I had to grade final assignments and could only leave on my birthday to join him and his lovely family. That year there were bad snow storms in parts of Europe reeking havoc with travel. 
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With a tight connection in the Czech Republic, I was nervous. As my flight from Amsterdam pulled into the gate in Prague, the gate to my flight to Athens, Greece was closing... I’d missed my flight. I spent the next 4 hours in line to re-book my ticket. When I finally got to the ticket desk there were no spaces, but the lady said ok, let’s squeeze you on the flight arriving in Athens at 1am in the morning. She was betting that despite it being already over booked that some of the seats would be empty due to all the delays. She gave me 20€ in meal  vouchers and off I went to kill about 4 hours in the airport. 
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By that time the food options were sadly limited and I was exhausted, so how did I spend my vouchers? I realized my 7 year old self’s dream of all the McDonalds I could eat! 🍔 🍟 🥤 🍦 😂 When I sat down with my tray a small girl of around 7 stared at me with envy and it was a birthday win!  After that I enjoyed a few Czech beers before getting on the flight to meet Alex and his cousin who drove out to the airport to get me with a lovely sign!
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Life is constantly chucking obstacles at us (hello 2020 😜🙈) but flexibility can be a life saver. If you can roll with the punches and find some silver linings it usually turns out ok! 😊
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#travelmemories #travelstories #flying #travelgram #enjoythelittlethings #greece  #athens #lovetotravel
Happy 40th birthday to Bell!!! 🎁 💝🥂Last y Happy 40th birthday to Bell!!! 🎁 💝🥂Last year at this time we were driving around South Australia exploring wineries in the Barossa Valley, considered the best wine region in Australia. Many think South Australia’s residents are generally the friendliest in the country (I think Queensland’s denizens give them a run for their money in that department too). No offense to Victorians, including Bell, who are wonderful! ❤️😀 

Bell was hoping to celebrate her 40th in Bhutan. Bhutan is the birthplace of measuring “Gross National Happiness” and considers that important to national success (wouldn’t it be great if every country considered that important?). So she’s decided to postpone her 40th birthday until next year. Good plan. In the meantime, happy almost 40 Bell! Cheers and best wishes to many more years of good health and happiness!🥂😘 .
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#southaustralia #australia #barossavalley #barossawine #visitaustralia #aussie #aussiesofinstagram #happybirthday
We hope you’re enjoying the holiday season! 🎄 We hope you’re enjoying the holiday season! 🎄This time last year I redeemed 70,000 Delta miles for a free roundtrip ticket to be in Japan during the tail end of their beautiful autumn foliage 🇯🇵. This year I’ve managed to gain 120,000 Delta skymiles without even flying! I recently published an article on how you can do it too! (link in bio) 😀

So far during the height of the pandemic, we’ve been choosing not to fly, but we’ll be taking international trips again in the near future and it’s a good time to prepare for the next one! Japan is amazing for its juxtaposition of modern technology with traditional temples, palaces and attire. I snapped this photo in Kyoto at the 1,300 year old Fushimi Inari Shrine - home to 10,000 torri gates. Kyoto has a staggering 1,600 temples and 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites! 

Bell visited Japan in 2002, before we were together, so it wasn’t a priority for her to plan a trip there compared to places she hasn’t visited. But it was always high on my list, so with the free plane ticket a great excuse to go! Have you visited Japan yet? .
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#kyoto #japan #visitjapan #kyotojapan #igersjapan #japanesegirl #japanesefashion #japaneseculture #japanesegirl #japanesetemple #japantrip #japantravel
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🧡🍁 We hope you’re Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🧡🍁 We hope you’re enjoying a great day and we wish you a wonderful holiday season! 🎄 This is the first year we are not traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday in several years. We are spending the holiday with the each other at home and cooking dinner together. We had planned and hoped to spend the holiday with family, but unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be this year. 
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We’re both grateful for staying relatively healthy so far in crazy 2020 (unfortunately Bell has a fractured foot), each other, interesting travels and good friendships. This photo was taken in West Virginia in September. All the best, have fun and stay well! 
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#thanksgiving  #grateful #health #hiking #love #holidayseason #bekind #lovelife #westvirginia #senecarocks
Who has visited Australia or has it on their trave Who has visited Australia or has it on their travel bucket list for a future trip? Australia frequently comes up as the #1 bucket list destination for many American travelers. So we put together a comprehensive article to help travelers plan a trip to Australia depending on your interests! 😎 We discuss the 3 best wine regions 🍷, outdoor activities 🏖, great places to see Australian animals 🐨 🦘, lots of tips on Sydney and Melbourne and ways to save big money on traveling to Australia! ✈️ 

We even discuss bush fire season - and how you can avoid it or stay safer if you visit during it. We recently discussed visiting Australia last year during the worst bush fire season on record on Christopher Rudder’s @travelhorrorpod podcast. The link to our Australia article is in our bio and you can listen to our podcast episode over on his site or directly from the end of our article! We hope you have a lovely and safe upcoming Thanksgiving! 🦃 
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#australia #visitaustralia #koala #aussie #aussiesofinstagram #australian #igaustralia
Happy Election Day! If you haven’t voted yet, pl Happy Election Day! If you haven’t voted yet, please vote! This election, set to the backdrop of a crippling global pandemic has been extremely challenging. We’ve still got a ways to go but we wish you all great things to come. We’ll eventually get through this! 

Four years ago we were visiting Greece during the 2016 US election. We had plans to move to Washington, DC regardless of the result because Bell had already been offered a job working in cancer research at the Food and Drug Administration. This year we’re home in the DC area and hopeful for results that will continue to allow democratic principles to flourish. Everybody’s vote deserves to be counted! Don’t you think? Remember that you can still vote as long as you’re registered and in line before polls close. If you’re told your name has been removed from the election roll for whatever reason - demand a provisional ballot from election officials. It’s your right! .
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#vote #vote2020 #election2020 #election #electionday
Where is a disappointing destination you’ve visi Where is a disappointing destination you’ve visited? We recently spent 5 days vacationing on Virginia Beach after Bell finished her 3 and 1/2 year tenure working at the FDA. While it’s always great to stay on the beach, overlooking crashing waves and breathing seaside air, the relaxing ambiance was ruined by incredibly loud fighter jets flying over the beach far too frequently. Some weekdays, the jets start flying at 8am and do not stop until 10pm. Also, while less noisy, military helicopters flew along the beach, sometimes until 1am. The jets don’t fly on weekends, so if you just go for a weekend getaway you can avoid that. 

A couple highlights of Virginia Beach is the impressive King Neptune Statue and delicious Greek American breakfast at Native American themed Pocahontas😋 Have you visited Virginia Beach? What did you think?
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