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My second week teaching English in Japan was in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It's one of the underrated tourism destinations but they're trying to beef it up — they added a new bullet train to Kanazawa last year (which I took). I definitely recommend you visit the small city of Kanazawa if you're looking for a …
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My first week in Japan was spent in Niigata City, Niigata. It's a coastal city with great seafood and rice. A lot of my time was spent with my hosts in Kameda for the week as I taught English at a local high school. It's a very beautiful, suburban, medium-sized city. Some strip malls and …
Our last day in Italy started off wrong. We planned to go to Saint Mark’s Basilica early but when we got there at 9:30 a.m. (It opens at 9:45 a.m.), the line was extraordinarily huge. Instead, we decided to make the most of our vaporetto 24 hour pass and travel to Burano, another island near …
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Day 1 We took the train (first class holla) to Venice (Venezia). I was told that the city would probably be humid and smelly during the summer because of all the water canals. I was told it was touristy and not much more. The main thing to do is San Marco and gondola rides. …
Day 4 On our Thursday in Florence, we took a long 12-hour day trip to the Tuscan countryside with Avanti. We loaded onto a 70-person bus and set off early in the morning for a few different stops. The program was in both Spanish and English ("a free Spanish lesson" as our guide said). While …
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