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| Memories from Slovenia, Finland, Austria, and Ireland by Sandy Clarke I am a 30 year old Black female from Atlanta that embraces the world beyond just the doorstep of the Unites States. I spent many years wanting to travel, but was always waiting on someone else's schedule... |
| How To Fall in Love With Poland. by Lola Akinmade Traveling to Eastern Europe had been a dream of mine for so long. Not knowing how I was going to be received as a minority; I decided to travel with a group. I wished I had gone it alone. Poland wowed me. The warmth, sincerity, and beauty of the Polish was absolutely endearing, and my new found respect for this historic country has reached new heights... |


| Travel Through Austria and Eastern Europe By Heather Calomese Austria and Eastern Europe still remain a bit of a mystery to the African-American traveler. Long prized for its old world charm, these tightly knit countries share many histories and pasts that have now resulted in an interesting clash of the old and new... |
| A Trip Report from Poland By Waymon Meeks I want to convey my first in a series of vacation reports. I am not going to tell you things that you can read in tour books (go and research those things yourselves). I will share some of the `special' things I encountered while traveling. I visited the cities of Krakow, Chorzow, and Warsaw... |

| Czech that bad attitude! by Regina Walker Prior to visiting Prague, I had read, and heard that the Czech people were not very friendly. In fact, I was told that they were downright rude and very cold towards strangers... |


| A Trip Report from Prague by Renee King Our excursion into the wonderful Czech Republic began with an eight hour trip from Atlanta on March 3, 2005. We had a 4:35 pm flight. We arrived in Frankfurt around 7:20 am the next day and had to catch the skyline train to the other terminal to switch planes. We were at our departure gate all of five minutes before they called us to transfer via bus to our plane to Prague. |
| An Adventure in Austria by K. Wiggs I recently took a second trip to Europe this summer to visit friends in Austria. I went to Salzburg, Zell am See and Kaprun. Austria is a beautiful country and it was so surreal that when I walked into the town center in Salzburg I thought the mountains were fake! |

| Moscow Then & Now by T. Roach-Raschke When we arrived at Sheremetyevo, I was glad to see that there has been some renovation done since the first time I landed here in 1975! I still remember my feeling of discomfort following my initial look up at the ceiling fixtures to see the dust and grime of the ages precariously dangling off them... |

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