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From the moment I stepped foot in Florence (Firenze), I felt as if locals handed me a plate of food (cibo) filled to the edge that somehow seemed to never empty. I encountered pasta—I alone have tried nearly 20 unique kinds, pizza—the toppings of…

Most things in China can be summed up through idioms, four-character phrases that are a key part of the Chinese language and culture. The idiom “人山人海” (rén-shān-rén-hǎi) is one of the first that I learned when I began studying Chinese about 10 years…

The first two things that made me fall in love with Lisbon were the street art and the tiles, or azulejos. I’m not sure which I noticed first, but each day that I’ve spent here since then, I’ve noticed a growing duality reflected in the presence…