This week, I walked into a room to find Bono and Angela Merkel chit-chatting, stood ten feet away from Barack Obama as he joked around and waited for his staff after a speech, mistook a be-capped Daniel Craig for Vladimir Putin, and minutes later rode an escalator up two floors with the real Vladimir Putin. (All the while marveling at how neither the American nor Russian Secret Services saw fit to tackle me.)
Those are just the highlights from a very, very exciting week that I hope will now be followed by a very, very quiet weekend.
I leave you with some interesting items I’ve come across over the past few days:
Stop googling, start connecting
The world’s five most posh hostels
Idioms of the world, illustrated
This guy fulfilled a quest to travel to every country in the world
Anthony Bourdain’s international food market is taking shape in New York
What happened when Paris went car-free for a day this week
8 things to never do while traveling alone
Finding a health insurance plan that travels with you
Germany prints its constitution in Arabic for refugees to learn
America/Jewish tourism in Iran
A handy guide to the agendas of the various countries intervening in the Syrian conflict
Have a great weekend!
[Photo: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard]
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