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“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
- Hilaire Belloc

photo: Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

After exploring the extensive beer section at the local grocery store in search a local bottle of wine and turning up only an aqua blue bottle of Boone’s Farm, we gave up and decided to seek assistance…. She was slightly less puzzled by our request for wine than Bud had been, and pointed out a huge bottle of $9.99 Sweedish Hill “Doobie Blues” and another of “Jack Ass Red, local wines named after the vineyard’s pet donkey.

In our rush to get Search Green Travel launch-ready, we’ve fallen behind on getting weekly links up. So, without further ado, here’s what the green travel blogosphere has been talking about in the past few weeks.
Fake Plastic Fish has a look at plastic in Barcelona.
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Then walk down Robson Street and find a spot where you can observe consumerism at its best as passersby shop at stores like Armani Exchange and Tommy Hilfiger If you have a sweet tooth, get in touch with the terroir side of your traveling locavore diet , and pick up some mint truffles or maple chocolates from Daniel Le Chocolat Belge …. Day 2: Yaletown, Chinatown, Gastown, and Granville Island Munch on a vegetarian breakfast tortilla wrap while you sip artistically-designed organic espresso at Caffe Artigiano on Hornby St., then cross the street to Vancouver Art Gallery , and browse the collection of nearly 10,000 artworks by Canadian and international artists.

Elizabeth and I had arrived in Hurghada, Egypt after a nightmarish plane ride from Moscow on which 1) I got sick from the fumes, and 2) a drunk Russian man in the seat next to mine repeatedly passed out, resting his head on my shoulder, while his friends across the aisle looked on a laughed…. Our “three star” hotel — where the shower, on full force, dribbled water like a leaky pipe — was staffed by young Egyptian men who were practically fluent in Russian, though they’d never formally studied it, and their English was good.

I struggle to be a vegetarian (and often fail) when I travel because I believe that to fully experience a culture or destination, you should try local foods — even foods you might not ever eat at home…. Plus, you can interact with the people — farmers and craftsmen alike — whose goods you’re buying, which is an interaction that can be harder to come by in the U.S. People.

There are lots of diagonal streets in DC, and when you combine those with the one-way streets, driving from point A to point B can be a time-consuming challenge…. I tried directions in a few different parts of DC and was unimpressed when I was told just about every time to go up a diagonal street that angled away from my final destination — even when there was another street that went straight there.

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I went to two this weekend and you just can’t trade the experience of chatting with the people who grow your food - especially when the alternative is the bored teenage checker at the local Safeway. My favorite part of my weekend farmers market excursions was at the H Street Farmers Market when, upon seeing my reusable bag, a lettuce vendor told me how happy she is that everyone is bringing their own bags these days.

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