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Celebrating European Whiteness
The European empire that didn’t colonize Africa
When the world shut down for COVID in March 2020, I was beside myself.
I don’t just mean literally alone in my house, but I couldn’t really wrap my head around a world shutdown.
I love to travel, and the idea that my thirst for learning about other peoples, places, cultures and foods would have to be put on hold didn’t sit well.
I get it. COVID was serious back then. Just wasn’t my jam.
The split-second international travel semi-reopened, I resumed my explorations, although all the masks, vaccine paperwork, uploading documents, curfews in some countries, no community gatherings and the like made it less than optimal, at least in 2021.
Still, I had the pleasure of seeing so many great places in 2021 and 2022.
Rwanda, Uganda, Costa Rica, Panama, Ethiopia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco.
By invitation of good friends I had made years prior in the United States, I had the pleasure of visiting Austria and Hungary to finish out 2022, with a pit stop in Brussels, Belgium.
Vienna and Budapest didn’t disappoint.
