by Alyssa Ramos Although I’d never been there before, Cape Town seemed familiar, as if I’d visited it in a past life or a lucid dream. It might have been due to my extensive research, or my curious project to interview local Cape Town bloggers before arriving, but the map of the town was embedded in my mind like a subconscious thought. It took thirty...
Interview With Featured Blogger: Karisa Nicholls, CapeTownMyLove.com by Alyssa Ramos How long have you lived in Cape Town and what do you absolutely love the most? I moved to to Cape Town in January of 2003. I love all the diverse options the city has to offer. From being able to enjoy the beautiful outdoors, touring the winelands...
Blogger Guides are a collection of interviews from top bloggers in different countries who I contacted via Twitter to help give me local/insider insight on things to do and see in each country I visit rather than only researching the area on the Internet. Bloggers know their cities inside and out, not just as residents, but as dedicated researchers and writers about...
by Alyssa Ramos I am definitely one of those people. One of those people who are constantly bombarding your newsfeeds with photos by the pool or in random travels. One of those people who no one is really quite sure of how they manage to be all of those places because it seems like they never work, and would never have the money to do any of it, unless someone else...
by Alyssa Ramos One of the many, many, things that I love about living in LA is how many different areas there are. If you get sick of the hustle and bustle of Hollywood, you can take an easy 30 minute drive out to the beach (even though it’s only 10 miles away) for a change of scenery. It’s an especially nice treat for us when we do make it out there...
by Alyssa Ramos Flying over the beginning flecks of islands amongst the clear blue ocean, darkened and lightened with depth, I was reminded of images I’ve seen in my undergrad ecology class textbooks. Darwin’s famed Galapagos Islands, whose contribution to evolutionary advances seemed almost mythical when studied in college, was now about to be a real...
I have a special way of snowboarding. By Alyssa Ramos I have a severely bad habit of thinking I can keep up with boys in several aspects that typically end up being extremely dangerous and painful for my life. Drinking is typically the main one, but last weekend, extreme road trip, sports, AND drinking were the causes. We decided last minute to go up to Mammoth for...
What else would you do on a booze cruise in Corfu? by Alyssa Ramos The very first stop on the Eurotrip I went on in college five years ago was in Greece, and to be completely honest, it wasn’t a country I was entirely interested in visiting in the first place since I had little knowledge about it to begin with. We started in Athens, which was fine and dandy...
By Alyssa Ramos When we got to Munich the first thing we wanted to do besides run to the nearest clothing store and buy wool coats was go to the famous beer garden, the Hofbrauhaus. After layering up in cheap but trendy blazers and scarves from H&M, and falling in love with the store for the first time since they didn’t exist in the U.S. yet, we set out in...
Nothing Like Waking Up On A Plane… By Alyssa Ramos During my sophomore summer in college I went on a Eurotrip with one of my sorority sisters that went to 15 countries in 36 days. Obviously this trip was not intended for educational purposes for us, and most of the girls on the trip immediately hated us for being the first ones to start drinking in Greece, but that...