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Featured
This travel company wants to pay you $9,000 to explore Europe this summer
The Plaid Zebra March 6, 2018

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  Summer vacation is right around the corner, which means that feet start to get itchy as students are released from the shackles of academia and everyone else starts to think about …

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berlin
Expression & Culture
Over 30 years, photographer captured the freaks and non-conformists that rule the underbelly of Berlin (photos)
The Plaid Zebra June 16, 2017

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  Miron Zownir has spent most of his life looking at others. His stunning collection of black and white photography tells the stories that would otherwise go untold, of those living …

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uk festivals
Expression & Culture
UK festivals will let you test your drugs before tripping out this summer
The Plaid Zebra May 26, 2017

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  Last July, the summer music festival, Secret Garden Party, became the first ever UK festival to offer its attendees a somewhat controversial service – drug testing. Festival …

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Innovation
The Netherlands now has the world’s first completely wind powered trains
The Plaid Zebra January 19, 2017

BY: RHIANN MOORE As of January 1, 2017, 600,000 daily commuters in the Netherlands have been traveling in complete carbon neutrality. This is because the Dutch NS trains now run on 1.2 billion kilowat…

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Expression & Culture
The futuristic beauty of the Balkans’ WWII monuments (photos)
The Plaid Zebra January 9, 2017

The Balkan peninsula is the melting pot of cultures and nations. It’s on the verge of Europe. The Balkans have been the spot for the most profound political games in the continent’s histor…

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Innovation
New supersonic plane will fly you from the US to Europe in 3 hours
The Plaid Zebra December 1, 2016

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  I have yet to meet someone who actually loves flying. Waiting at the airport, squishing down those tiny aisles to find your seat, which usually ends up being in between the woman w…

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For 7 years this vagabond collected 1,000 stories from strangers who helped him on his journey
The Plaid Zebra November 14, 2016

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  All photos by Gabor  Gabor hasn’t had a place to call home in over seven years. Instead he has spent those years backpacking the world and meeting new people. Gabor decided t…

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Global Stage
Travel company launches gap year program that takes learning around the globe
The Plaid Zebra September 27, 2016

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Not all learning happens in a classroom, sometimes a plane ticket can trump a text book. Geckos Adventures, a travel company that plans adventures for 18-29 year-old travellers, is t…

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Global Stage
This nature phenomenon is an otherworldly forest of stone with a unique history
The Plaid Zebra September 18, 2016

BY: AISHA ILYAD Mother nature is strange; it is always ready to amaze us. For thousands of years nature has carved stone pieces in order to turn them into impressive sculptures, which look like people…

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Featured
The world’s most friendly (and powerful) passports
The Plaid Zebra September 13, 2016

BY: TONY BUCHNON If you had the choice of any passport you liked, which would you choose? As it turns out, your passport says more than you might realise about your level of access to the world. Europ…

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Expression & Culture
Football hooliganism: a contrasting tale of Brits, Russians and Irishmen
The Plaid Zebra June 28, 2016

BY: VICTORIA HEATH Smashed beer bottles, torn flags, blood spatters, broken chairs, empty tear gas canisters, and scraps of metal littered the streets of the usually tranquil seaside city of Marseille…

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Travel by teaching
Life without Borders
Teaching English could be your ticket around the world
The Plaid Zebra April 30, 2016

BY: Zoe Melnyk So you’ve graduated with a wonderful degree in a major that you’re passionate about that has absolutely no “real world” qualifications for a job, let alone a career. You couldn’t help i…

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1_$99 flights from Canada to Iceland
Life without Borders
WOW Air just unveiled $99 flights from Canada to Iceland, and $149 flights to Europe
The Plaid Zebra October 2, 2015

BY: ROB HOFFMAN WOW Air just unveiled shockingly cheap airfare prices that will allow Canadians to visit Iceland and Europe for less money than it costs to fly between Toronto and Montreal. The first …

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0_ powerful portraits of self-ruling people
Life without Borders
Photographer hitchhikes across Europe to take powerful portraits of self-ruling people
The Plaid Zebra July 5, 2015

After being swept away in the flow of constant emails, only to be caught in the dead river of early morning traffic, many of us stew and question the overwhelming pace of our lives. Do I really want m…

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1_Europe’s largest living wall
Global Stage
Europe’s largest living wall contains 97,000 plants
The Plaid Zebra June 28, 2015

BY: JESSICA BEUKER A 446-space parking garage is now home to Europe’s largest living wall. The wall contains 97,000 plants drawn from 20 different species chosen specifically to provide environmental …

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Life without Borders
This Irish artist has built a house literally worth 1.4 billion Euros notes
The Plaid Zebra March 17, 2015

BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Just when you thought money motive was superseding creativity, European Artist Frank Buckley builds a house made of $1.4 billion in shredded Euro notes. The artist himself is now oc…

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1_Human zoo
Global Stage
Human zoos are one of Europe’s most shameful secrets, and only ended in the ’50s.
The Plaid Zebra February 20, 2015

BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Not too long ago, people from Belgium, France and many other countries came to visit humans, locked up in cages, exhibited in front of a large audience and thrown in with animals at…

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