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Flights

SAS A320-300 Plus

Route: Oslo to LongyearbyenPlane: A320-200Date: 1 July 2025Price: $440 ComfortThe seats are exactly the same as regular economy, or SAS Go, so it’s more of a premium economy product than a business class product. The first 11 rows were marked Read more

By admin, 1 monthOctober 10, 2025 ago
Iconic Places

Eastern State Penitentiary

The fortress-like prison in Philadelphia have 30-foot walls that go underground. Built in 1830, it was the world’s first purpose-built prison meant to deprive people of freedom as a form of punishment. Jails before this were just holding pens for Read more

By admin, 1 monthOctober 8, 2025 ago
US & Canada

Weitzman Museum of Jewish American History

Jewish Americans landed in New Netherlands before it became New York and built their first synagogue in the country there in 1730. So, logically, New York should have been the home to this museum rather than Philadelphia. Early Jewish settlers Read more

By admin, 1 monthOctober 6, 2025 ago
US & Canada

Barnes Foundation

An incredible collection of western European modern art from the likes of Prendergast, Cézanne, and Van Gogh ended up in Philadelphia. I loved the giant pointillism painting Models by Seurat which featured a slice of the famous  A Sunday Afternoon Read more

By admin, 1 monthOctober 3, 2025 ago
Flights

Swiss E190-E2 Business Class

Route: Oslo to ZürichPlane: E190-E2Date: Jul 13, 2025Price: $1,811.96 (including onward flights to Montreal and Ottawa, same price as premium economy) ComfortEuropean business class doesn’t get wider seats or more legroom, it’s just the regular economy seat with a neighbour-free Read more

By admin, 1 monthSeptember 29, 2025 ago
US & Canada

The Franklin Institute

The country’s third longest Foucault pendulum is in Philadelphia‘s Franklin Institute. It proves that the Earth is round and turns on an axis. The Pendulum appears to change direction while in reality the Earth is the one spinning and the Read more

By admin, 2 monthsSeptember 26, 2025 ago
Iconic Places

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rocky ran up the steps to the museum entrance as he trained to defeat the Russian boxer during the height of the Cold War. Tourists line up at his statue to take a photo with young Sylvester Stallone and leap Read more

By admin, 2 monthsSeptember 22, 2025 ago
Cars

2025 Mazda CX-5 2.5S Carbon Edition

Looks aren’t everything

By admin, 2 monthsSeptember 19, 2025 ago
US & Canada

Philly Cheesesteak

Foodies more knowledgeable than I can tell you the culinary history of the famous Philly cheesesteak sandwich and what the differences are between Pat’s and Geno’s. It’s widely regarded that Pat’s made the sandwich famous in the 1930s and Geno’s Read more

By admin, 2 monthsSeptember 15, 2025 ago
US & Canada

Liberty Bell

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, like many other American patriotic symbols, are not what the traditional national narrative claims it to be. For example, the Star Spangled Banner written at Fort McHenry came from the War of 1812, an expansionist Read more

By admin, 2 monthsSeptember 12, 2025 ago

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