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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By limbodancer | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
Palermo has its Pandora’s Box in Ballarò where a thousand cultures from East to West meet and live together. The marketplace is located not that far from the city center and from "Quattro Canti", the octagonal area created by the crossing of two of the ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By simpleness | Views [114] | Scholarship Entry
Up to that day; the only adventure that I had was smoking cigarettes secretly from my parents. But realized the world is large enough to take the risk to travel. Temporary passengers of the planet does not care rapidly rotating geoid. Because in a daytime ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By zizavita | Views [99] | Scholarship Entry
It was cold. We were lost. The rain had only recently subsided, and we were starving. A few hours earlier, we had departed Venice for Brescia, a tiny town in northern Italy that few would consider more than a timestamp on a stretch of rail ushering passengers ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By ordinary_gatsby | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
Our life is nothing but a chain of moments. Vivid, captivating, inspiring… In our memory we collect the most precious of them, these tiny pieces of our spiritual treasure that define who we are. In 2013 I replenished my collection of memories. That year ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By countergrafts | Views [361] | Scholarship Entry
I am a drunk soul venturing Florence's dark alleys. The wine tricks me: my senses grow stronger to their full potential only to fade away a couple of seconds afterwards. Exceptionally, I am drunk and I feel guilty about it. It feels like I am somehow ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By travelerego | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
«Gaudi has arrived in Italy, on the road of Tuscany». Hills and sky, green and blue, here we are on the road. Tuscany is not easily to forget. Fascinating with its medieval cities that rise like pyramids in the middle of the green countryside. Charming ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By mininova | Views [144] | Scholarship Entry
“You won’t ever pass the exam.” “You didn’t get the scholarship to study abroad.” It was that day I understood graduating would have been very difficult, if not impossible. It had lost value in my eyes anyway. Stuck in a university that didn’t teach me ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By caitiewrites | Views [374] | Scholarship Entry
When I am in Venice it seems as though such a tiny string of islands couldn’t possibly be sufficient to hold the volume of people threading their way through the narrow streets and thronging in the squares. Amid this noise and crush it is soothing to ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By triinu | Views [119] | Scholarship Entry
Despite that I was pretty sure I’d just arrived to Palermo they welcomed me to Africa. Sicilians’ humor, I supposed. I was alone just wondering around the city being amazed by even the tiniest sculptures glowing in their historical beauty. I had my map ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By heartofvenice | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
In the midst of that one-sided argument, he finally left me mid-way to my solitude in that unknown world. With anxiety and restlessness in my heart, stumped I was, to see the numerous enigmatic travelers around me. In a moment, I overheard a behemoth ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By margaretscott | Views [121] | Scholarship Entry
Putting on a bikini and clothes without waking my roommate was a feat in our compact room and one that I almost accomplished until I heard a sleepy "oh where are you going? I'm coming too". We were two conspirators in a shared apartment of four and ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By dilettante75 | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
Just prior to his wedding in Rome, my friend the groom announced that following their nuptials, he and his wife would accompany me on a jaunt to Venice. Scattered pink islands, littering a turquoise lagoon signalled our descent into Marco Polo airport.... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jasq | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
Venice, known also as “Old Dame” - considered to be one of the most beautiful places in the world - city situated on the water. Proudly presenting itself as an elegant lady. The buildings stay stable among the canals filled with water. From the windows ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By thenomadicblonde | Views [93] | Scholarship Entry
As our tour guide continued rattling off her sometimes interesting facts about our next destination, the Cinque Terre, all I can remember thinking at that point was - how much I hated that girl who was sitting two seats up me as she had kept me up the ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By angelinarybak | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
“In my previous life I must have been a nomad,” I said to myself digging my tripod into the ground as if it were a walking stick on the Promised Land. While every story has a specific place, mine happened in the bottom of my heart, set against the backdrop ... Read more >
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