My first steps in Africa came via ferry from Gibraltar. The passport control line was ‘everyone go visit this guy sitting in the corner’, which seemed very official, and I was off the ferry into Tangier with a passport stamp. We’d booked a hostel in the Medina (old city), and the streets are largely unnamed…
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From Portugal, we drove over to Gibraltar, which was a nice drive. The traffic to cross the border was a huge headache, because we not only had passport control, we also had to wait while they closed the main road in/out, because it crosses the airport runway, and a plane was taking off soon. Zzzzz……
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We flew Ryanair to Faro for a few days the week between Christmas and New Year. Surprisingly, we had a reservation at a hostel but showed up to find it locked. Someone at a store nearby told us that family always goes out of town for the holidays / shocked that we had a reservation…
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We took the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki for 24 hours before going back to fly home from Tallinn. Helsinki seems like a great city. We didn’t really have plans and wandered aimlessly through the city, hung out in the park, and observed the crazy popularity of rollerblades in Helsinki’s summer. We found a Nepalese…
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In early July 2012, I flew with a friend to Tallinn, Estonia, and we stayed with some local people who were my friend’s friend’s friends somehow. We had some really interesting conversations about the fact they work 65-70 hours a week to make ends meet with 7 people living in their small apartment, the GDP…
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The Wandering Vegan
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My name is Ryan.
I caught the travel bug at a young age, and here are the tales of my wanderlust, surprise vegan food finds, and adventures across the planet.
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