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Photo Essay: Toronto Street Art

By on June 10, 2013 in art, Canada, photo friday, Toronto

Tweet Street art has become my favorite thing to discover in a new city. I was in Toronto for the Travel Blog Exchange conference and was staying at Planet Traveler near Kensington Market, a place ideal for spotting street art. And while in the past I’ve simply taken pictures of what I thought looked interesting, [...]

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Photo Essay: Miami Street Art

By on May 10, 2013 in art, Florida, MIami, photo friday, USA

Tweet As an unabashed street art fan, I was excited to see what Miami had to offer. I had seen images of the famous Wynwood Arts District and immediately added it to my Ultimate Florida Road Trip itinerary. And while you can spot street art all around town, this is where the most famous works [...]

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Searching for Klimt in Vienna

By on March 11, 2013 in art, Austria, Europe, Vienna

TweetAnyone who didn’t know me in high school might not guess that I am a not-so-closeted art history freak. I took AP Art History in high school (Team APAH for life!) and another class in college before I realized that I didn’t want to spend the next four years memorizing slides. But my passion for [...]

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Photo Essay: Melbourne Street Art

By on February 8, 2013 in art, Australia, Melbourne, photo friday

Tweet While Melbourne didn’t get a chance to impress me, I did appreciate the street art that makes the city so popular with the hip, artsy set. I had read about the so-called “graffiti alley,” better known as Hosier Lane, before visiting Melbourne but knew I had to track it down for myself. Located across [...]

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Photo Essay: Porto Street Art

By on December 17, 2012 in art, Europe, photo friday, Porto, Portugal, travel

Tweet Street art is the best way to experience a city’s pulse without stepping foot inside of a museum. I visited Porto, Portugal back in September for the Travel Bloggers Unite conference and was impressed at the display of public artworks next to hundred-year-old buildings. The one above was located down the street from Gallery [...]

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Photo Friday: East Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany

By on October 26, 2012 in art, Berlin, Europe, free, Germany, photo friday

Tweet My first day in Berlin wasn’t the best. I arrived on the morning train from Hamburg and checked into PLUS Hostel Berlin with enough time to make it to a 1 pm tour. Or so I thought. Instead, I got lost, got stuck in an elevator and missed my tour. I was so frustrated [...]

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Asheville’s Bele Chere Festival

By on August 10, 2012 in art, Asheville, food, free, music, North America, North Carolina, USA

Tweet Sammi warned Rachel and I before we left that there would be a festival going on while we were there. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but once we arrived, we discovered that the Bele Chere Festival is one of Asheville’s biggest, with free concerts, artists and craftsmen and hundreds of [...]

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Support Local Arts at Home and Abroad

By on April 10, 2012 in art, Atlanta, free, Georgia

Tweet This month, I lost a place that was very dear to me, a second home of sorts. Theatre in the Square, a community theater in my hometown of Marietta, Georgia, closed its doors after 30 years. I spent four years of my life in their Teen Ensemble, where I studied drama under director Susan [...]

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Photo Essay: Convicts and Spraypaint

By on December 13, 2011 in art, Australia, photo friday, Sydney

Tweet Something I found fascinating about Sydney is that there are dozens of islands around it, mostly owned by the state government.  Cockatoo Island, the largest of these islands, has had many lives, including stints as a prison for the thousands of convicts sent from England, a jail, an industrial school and a shipyard as late [...]

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Adelaide: Melbourne’s Hipster Kid Sister

By on February 23, 2011 in Adelaide, art, Australia

Tweet Adelaide was never really in the plans. There were no big tourist sites like in Sydney and we didn’t have friends there like in Melbourne. It was more like, “You want to keep going to Adelaide?” “Sure, why not.” I hadn’t formed the best opinion of the South Australian capital prior to visiting since [...]

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