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The first stop on my European train adventure this month? Amsterdam! I rediscovered my love for this beautiful city with its maze of canals and historic merchant buildings.

I’ve visited the Southwest five times over the past few years, but it took me until my 6th visit this year to finally visit a ranch, a real working dude …

And just like that, my time in Austin came to an end. What started out as a curious exploration of a new (to me) state and city turned into an intensive love affair…

Another fun-filled week in Berlin – with lots of street art, street food, walking tours, curry wursts, German soccer and an epic bike ride…

Surprise – I’m in England! I will be spending the week in sunny Brighton on England’s south coast, a town that I’ve visited dozens of times but can’t seem to get enough of…

During our road trip through Northern Arizona our path crossed the famous ‘Mother Road’, Route 66, several times. On our last day we decided to drive the section of Route 66 from Seligman to Kingman, one of the few in-tact segments of the highway which originally stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. On the way we found numerous original gas stations, motels, road side shops with classic 50s & 60s cars out front and other Route 66 memorabilia which awakens the nostalgia of the Great American Road Trip from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.

Unlike the hippie/backpacker friendly Zipolite, the Mazunte locals still live very much off the land.

Tucked deep in the jungle in Chiapas, southern Mexico, the Mayan ruins of Palenque are set in one of the most spectacular surroundings in Mexico.

Todos Santos Cuchumatan is a village in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, and the Mam Mayans make up by far the largest part of its population.

Estelí is located in Nicaragua’s Northern Highlands and the country’s 3^rd largest city. The town was heavily involved in conflict during the Sandinista revolution of the 70s and 80s and still is one of the towns with the most support for the Sandinista FSLN party. Estelí may not feature the same colonial architecture that Granada or Leon are famous for, but the city is famous for its intelligent urban art.