I do not recommend arriving in Sydney early Sunday morning after a long long flight while the rest of the city is all hung over from the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (note: you should be there FOR Mard...
My hometown is not very big. It is considered a city but that’s for Portuguese standards. Usually there’s not much going on there that gets the rest of the country’s, or even its ow...
Last month commemorated the 20 year anniversary of the televised kangaroo trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu on December 25, 1989… Merry Christmas! This was also my first winter...
Musée du Louvre 34 Rue du Louvre 75001 Paris, France Phone: +33 (0)1 40 20 58 24 Website: http://www.louvre.fr Opening Hours: Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 9:00 – 18:00; Wednesdays, F...
Ever felt like you were born in the wrong time? Like you should have been born much earlier so you could have been an explorer of new lands? But what about the guilt of invading the space of indigeno...
Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar Avenida de Brasília 1400 Lisboa, Portugal Related links: Dopplr Wikipedia – Portuguese Colonial War View Atlas Parasite in a larger map Rating: 10.0/10 (2...
Submitted by: Nick Ball Lanzarote, Spain The small Canary Island of Lanzarote is best known as a bucket and spade beach destination. Attracting over 1.5 million tourists every year. But away from th...
Sometimes I think I might be getting too old for hostels (at this moment I have 28 rings on my trunk) but the fact is I’m not supernaturally rich so I still prefer to look for places where chea...
Submitted by: Aleksandra Kurczynska Ghent, Belgium Have you already seen Gravensteen? Have you taken photos from Sint Michielsbrug? Have you rested on Graslei when drinking a magic bottle of wine? Ha...
Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra 2, Place Yves Klein 06300 Nice, France Phone: +33 (0)4 97 13 48 00 Website: http://www.bmvr-nice.com.fr Related links: Dopplr Square Head Building by Sacha Sosno Sacha Sosn...
Submitted by: Lyndsey Biddle Kolkata, India Harbin, China is the fourth largest Winter Wonderland in the world. That being so, you may ask yourself, why not visit one of the other three larger ones i...
You will never go hungry on the streets of Amsterdam for lack of restaurants. It seems like every block has at least one. That is actually sometimes the problem. Too many options leads someone like m...
Meat lovers rejoice! If you are in Belgium, you can find delicious ribs within a 30 min train ride of just about anywhere. Amadeus: The Place for Ribs has two locations in Ghent, one in Brussels, and...
Autumn has arrived in full and has brought the rain with it. And that’s exactly what I had when I went to Vienna a couple of weeks ago: rain, lots and lots of rain. Because of that I had to cha...
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As you may have noticed, we love cemeteries here at Atlas Parasite. Well, another one of our less creepy, but definitely more nerdy, obsessions is libraries! And let me tell you, when I walked into t...
Submitted by: Sofia Kasviki Athens, Greece In Greece you will not find any shiny contests like the Oscars, so actors learn to be more humble. They still aim high but they don’t turn out to be conceit...
Hey everyone it’s time for another installment of one my favorite games while traveling: grave hunting. If you don’t know what grave hunting is, there is a crash course in the intro of ou...
American thanksgiving is something we should try to import to Europe instead of Halloween. True! Not only do you get to eat well and a lot (although according to the stereotypes, that’s not som...
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You might have heard of Lyon as the gastronomic capital of France, the second largest city in France, the home of the Olympique Lyonnais football club, which was undefeated for seven (!) straight yea...
Café Slavia, or Kavárna Slavia, is probably the most famous café in Prague. It is located across from the National Theater, and both the café and the theater have been there since 1881. Because of it...
Looking for a musical way to spend a Monday night in Buenos Aires? Sure, you can always find some milonga around town to dance some tango, but maybe you’ve already done that…or maybe you&...
I was only turned on to sushi a few years ago, being forced to eat it by a couple of friends (Jeremy Piven was not one of them) who really wanted to go to a sushi restaurant when we found ourselves s...
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Do you ever wonder what would happen if you got stranded in an elevator? I usually think that I would need to pee so badly that I wouldn’t be able to think of anything else. Well, if you ever g...
Belgium is known, on the cultural identity subject, to be a very divided country. For those who don’t know, the country is essentially virtually split in half, with the northern half being predominan...
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