When you first start exploring Glasgow, one thing becomes clear very quickly: the city’s history doesn’t sit neatly in a single preserved quarter. Instead, it exists in layered contrasts stacked directly on top of each other. In a single afternoon walk through the city center, you can step from a 19th-century civic square lined with
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Meet Imma: Bringing the Heart, Flavor, and Warmth of Naples to Your Mailbox Imma was born and raised in Naples, where the morning air carries the rich aroma of espresso and the Mediterranean breeze. For her, the most important side of Naples is the one all the tourist guidebooks often miss – the quiet warmth
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While visiting Glasgow, I met up with a friend who happens to be a Chemistry professor at the University of Glasgow. He offered to take me on a tour. Knowing the university was founded way back in 1451, I was expecting to be shuffling through dusty cobblestones, ancient cloisters, and centuries-old stone halls. Instead, my
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If you had asked me about “Mackintosh,” I probably would have assumed you were talking about an Apple computer or the fruit. It turns out that in Glasgow, Mackintosh is an absolute design icon. To experience Mackintosh, I headed to Glasgow’s famous Willow Tea Rooms — originally brought to life by the city’s legendary architect,
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In both Edinburgh and Glasgow, the sounds of the Great Highland Bagpipe are everywhere – echoing down the streets thanks to local buskers, leading parade marches, and generally serving as Scotland’s unofficial, ear-splitting heartbeat. So, what better way of diving into Scottish culture than by booking a lesson at The National Piping Centre in Glasgow!
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Wait, Scotland Isn’t Just “North England”? When I lived in the UK, learning about UK geography felt like doing a Rubik’s cube. Everyone told me the colors fit together, but I just couldn’t get it to square. So in summary, the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” (UK) is the “sovereign state”, containing
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Dear Subscribers, We do want to apologize that our August card writer, Imma encountered a complication with her pregnancy, so had to delay the mail out of the August cards. Thankfully both mother and baby are safe and on the mend. Imma will mail them out by the end of September. We thank you for
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Read more of Michael’s posts about Norway:
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Vigeland Park is the life’s work of a single man, the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. It is quite unlike anywhere I’ve been. Set within the green expanse of Frogner Park, it holds more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite, and cast iron, all of them made by him or under his direction. It’s said to
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There are six Nobel Prizes. Five are awarded in Stockholm. One slipped across the border to … Norway! Every December, the Nobel Peace Prize is handed out not in Sweden, but in Norway. It is the only one of Alfred Nobel’s prizes given outside his home country, and that is no accident. When the Swedish
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