We had spoken with Elsa Thomasma from GoAbroad.com about writing an article for Cultural Travel Guide about the rich culture of the Philippines.

Then Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the islands last November and the article not only got postponed, but it took on an entirely different approach.

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Does everybody have a getting-robbed-while-on-vacation story?

So we’d had a wonderful lunch next to La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and had taken the metro to the Block of Discord, to visit Casa Milá (La Pedrera) when… Wait a minute… where’s my wallet ?

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Hi, Everybody!

Just wanted to make a very short post to bring some attention to the fact that to me, travel would not be the same without my iPod, which of course, is one of Steve’s most revolutionary products.

I got my first iPod in 2006 but have been using iTunes since it came out. My first iPod was a 60GB iPod video and it came with me to my trips, I got tons of free audio guides, podcasts and iTunesU content to listen to while on travel!

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So let me tell you the story of the time I went against my very nerdy principles and decided to wing my cultural travel.

Can you imagine having had the most amazing vacation, bags full of gifts for your friends and family, having run through the streets of Paris at 5 am in the morning, to catch the plane back home… except…

From the moment we met, my fiancee and I had wanted to travel to Europe. He’d been there several time getting  his doctorate degree, so he wanted to show me around and I was dying to see the Old Continent.

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