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Morocco, Travel Stories

A Day Trip to Ouarzazate and Ait Benhaddou

10 May, 2016

“This is the most famous viewpoint in all of Morocco,” said Omar, our Marrakshi guide for the day. “It is called Tizi n’Tichka pass and what you are looking at are the Atlas Mountains.” It had taken nearly two hours of driving along some of the scariest and most nausea-inducing roads in Morocco to get…

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Travel Stories

My Most Popular Instagram Travel Photos of 2015

19 January, 2016

Last year was my first full year on Instagram – yes, I know. I was a bit #latetotheparty. In fact, I was quite dedicated to my Blackberry and completely dumbfounded that they didn’t have Instagram for Blackberry! Eventually I decided to upgrade and once I got used to not having a physical keyboard, it was…

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Musings

7 Things You Don’t Ask an Anthropology Graduate Student

25 November, 2015

I’m nearing the end of my first term of graduate studies! In honour of the new discipline (anthropology), I’ve been conducting my own research on graduate student life. I’m using the most robust of methods: participant observation. It seems to me that grad life is hard. The graduate student recipe looks something like this: Take…

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Life Abroad, Musings

I’m Back in Canada. But I’m Not Home.

13 October, 2015

[instagram url=”https://instagram.com/p/7BIzMNqZ9K/” width=500] (Goodness I’m melodramatic!) Things are slow here on the blog, but it certainly hasn’t felt that way for me on the ground. I got back to Canada at the end of August and started my MA program just over a week later. I barely had time to reconnect with friends, many of…

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Travel Stories, United Kingdom

The Banksy ‘Dismaland’ Experience, Weston-Super-Mare

24 August, 2015

We really just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Two weeks ago my partner and I had planned to visit a friend in Bristol for a surf trip in Devon. On Thursday, the news broke that Banksy had opened a ‘Bemusement Park’ exhibition in Weston-Super-Mare, just 30 minutes away from Bristol.…

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Europe, Travel Stories

Split: The Luxury Holiday I Always Wanted – On a Budget

4 August, 2015

I’m skipping right over Rome (not that it wasn’t fabulous, I had a great time) and going straight to writing about Split. I loved it here and full disclosure: more than once I considered missing my flight and staying here forever. For the first time in all of my travels, I really felt like I…

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Europe, Travel Stories

Following The Tapas Trail in Barcelona

24 July, 2015

  [instagram url=https://instagram.com/p/5bg8ltKZ9m/ width=500]   I am sure that I lived in Barcelona in another life. I visited Barna for the second time and I felt the same joy as before, and the experience was only made better since I got to share it with one of my favourite people in the world. Not only…

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Europe, Musings

7 Reasons I’m Going Back to Barcelona

5 June, 2015

Out of habit, I started typing places I wanted to visit into a flight comparison site. Before I knew it, I had flights booked from London to Morocco to Spain to Italy to Croatia and back to London. With such little time left in Europe, why go back to Morocco and Barcelona when there are…

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Europe, Travel Stories

Surfing in Fuerteventura with Planet Surf Camp

26 May, 2015

After Martinique, the next time I went surfing was a chilly November day in Westward Ho!. No, that is neither a grammatical error nor a reflection of how much fun I had. The place is called Westward Ho! and it’s the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name.  It…

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Musings

Life Update: What’s Next for Alyssa (Writes)?

22 April, 2015

With my Youth Mobility Visa expiring in four months, my time in London is coming to a close, and you all have been asking me what the future holds. Another visa to work abroad? Back to Canada? Digital nomad-ing it up around the world? What about you and bae? Well, over the last four years…

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Who am I?

alyssa james, freelance writer, content marketer, alyssa writes

I’m Alyssa — PhD Student and Freelance Writer based in New York City! I write about Travel and Social Justice. Words in MSN, Bustle, the Globe and Mail, Porthole Cruise Magazine, The Local, Matador Network, and more.

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Aix-en-Provence | Thailand | Bali

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New York

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Colombia | Martinique | Japan

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