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Sparkle #131: Fall Travel Checklist

Travel doesn’t always mean packing your bags and heading to far and distant places! Even short excursions to nearby attractions can offer a good break from the monotony of daily life and help clear one’s mind. This week on the blog is about all things fall, so today I am sharing a checklist of top travel activities for autumn. All of these will involve some amount of traveling, so pack your bags and make the most of this fall season! Visit a pumpkin patch, a corn maze and take a hayride Go apple picking in an orchard Take long walks in a nearby forest…

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Sparkle #127: Travel Words To Love

Sometimes travel inspiration can strike anywhere, even when reading a word! There are some unique words in English and other languages which beautifully capture the emotions of a wandering soul. If your travel vocabulary starts at adventure and ends at wanderlust, then you might want to refresh it with something more interesting from the options given below! Aren’t these travel words fascinating? My favorite one is ‘drapetomania’, I often feel this irresistible urge to just run away to towns, cities and countries – familiar and unknown. Which one of these do you identify with as a traveler? (Image Credits: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5, Image 6, Image 7, Image 8,…

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Sparkle #123: Last few days at the Beach

Summer is quickly making way for fall, and while I cannot wait for the air to get cooler and the days to get shorter, I will definitely miss one thing about summer – the lovely, lazy, long days spent at the beach! The world is filled with beaches – some beautiful, some exotic and some rather unusual. The following 6 unique beaches have been on top of my travel list for a while now. There are plenty of beautiful beaches to explore, and if you click on the links at the end of the post, you will be taken to guides which list out some other spectacular…

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We Will See You Next Week!

Happy Monday all you beautiful people! If you have been reading this space, you know by now how much I love to travel. I am lucky that I get to do it often, sometimes for work and sometimes for leisure. While each trip I take might not end up being fun, it almost always offers it’s own adventures and learnings! This week, I am off again for some business travel within the country. It’s a short trip packed with lots of work, but I am sure I will have exciting stories to share with you once I return this weekend! As much as I…

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Sparkle #119: Chocolate Around the World

Would you travel for Chocolate? I know I would! Science says chocolate is a definite happiness booster, and I couldn’t agree more! It easily fits in with most menus or cuisines, is available in a variety of forms and flavors and often tops the list of comforting, indulgent and stress busting foods. There are plenty of shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants across the world which celebrate chocolate in all it’s glory. Whatever your next destination, be sure to look up ‘chocolate’ and I am sure you will find at least one novel chocolate cafe in that place which you would want to try during your trip. These chocolate shops across…

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