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‘The Love Boat’: How a TV show transformed the cruise industry
CNN — From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation over the years. And the market has skyrocketed. Back in 1970, an estimated 500,000 people went…
How this American moved to Italy and became the country’s ‘first woman rabbi’
CNN — When she visited Italy for the first time with her father back in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Three decades…
She relocated to Spain in 2022, but after struggling to adapt, this American woman has packed up and returned home
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‘Things are really changing for them’: Why explorer known as ‘Indiana Jones for girls’ is walking across Saudi Arabia
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‘We love it here’: Why this American couple swapped New York for Uruguay
CNN — They’d been friends for years, but everything changed for Austin Mullins and Jack Richards, both from the US, when they took a trip to New York’s Fire Island together back…
Her husband died after they moved to Spain. Now this American woman says she’s determined to live their dream
CNN — As they neared their retirement, Madeline Waid and her husband Jim, both from the United States, were eager to spread their wings. The couple, who were based in Randolph, Vermont,…
IKEA names its furniture for Swedish destinations. This American road tripped to visit them
CNN — Hear the word “Kallax,” and many people, particularly those outside of Sweden, will immediately think of a certain storage shelf from IKEA. But like many of the Swedish furniture giant’s…
An American teen sent a letter to a random address across the world. It led to lifelong friendship
CNN — Growing up in a very small town in the Alentejo region of Portugal during the 1970s, Leonor Drago recalls watching planes fly over her home, convinced she’d never get to…
She moved to Portugal with her husband to start a new life. Then the unthinkable happened
CNN — Convincing her husband to take early retirement and leave behind their lives in San Diego, California to travel the world back in 2018 was no easy undertaking for Kimberly Walker,…