Short Girl Travels
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The coffee shops I visited this time around have a theme: they’re both highly-rated local(ish) coffee roasters! I have a soft spot for small-batch local coffee roasters. In my mind coffee shops get bonus points if they source and roast their own single-origin beans, because it means they’re really dedicated to making a great tasting…
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Continuing my tour of places I’ve somehow never been to before even though I grew up nearby, we recently checked Longwood Gardens off my “want to visit” bucket list. Located about an hour outside of Philadelphia, the gardens are a major tourist attraction that draws MASSIVE crowds both during the summer and over the Christmas…
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Lark, a rooftop Mediterranean restaurant located just outside of Philadelphia in Bala Cynwyd (pronounced Ba-lah Kin-wood), has been on my list of places to try for what seems like forever. So when my birthday rolled around, I knew exactly where I wanted to go. I will say, I didn’t expect to find such a highly rated…
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Generally when people think of wine regions in the United States, the first that come to mind (at least for me) are Napa Valley in California and the Finger Lakes in New York. But did you know there are hundreds of wineries in Pennsylvania? I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t know much about…
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No matter how much experience you have, or the amount of research you do beforehand, trips will almost never go 100% according to plan. Sometimes it is completely out of your control, like a storm causing a flight delay or cancellation. Other times it will be completely avoidable, and you may feel annoyed with yourself…
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I can’t believe its already the one year anniversary of starting the Short Girl Travels blog! I swear the older I get, the faster time seems to fly by. It feels like just yesterday that I was nervously hitting “publish” for the first time, and now here I am with post #45. Sure there have…
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I’ve realized after traveling with other people, as well as taking a couple small solo trips, that my husband Jasper is truly my favorite person to travel with. Ugh, so mushy, I know. I am NOT a super mushy person, so this feels like a lot coming from me. So traveling as a couple is…
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Mixing things up with a special installment of Will Travel for Coffee, focusing on a local coffee chain called Char & Stave. They have two locations: one in Ardmore, PA, and the other in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. What makes them different from the other coffee shops I’ve covered so far is they’re…
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You’ll find Bartram’s Garden situated along the the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia. It wasn’t as big as I expected based on the acreage and Google Maps. It was a nice park, but if I’m being honest I was a bit underwhelmed based on how many sites recommended it being a must-visit. There weren’t as…
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Just across the Ben Franklin Bridge from Philadelphia, you’ll find the Adventure Aquarium on the riverfront in Camden, New Jersey. We decided to go on a Thursday morning with my brother and his family, thinking it’d be a bit less busy than on the weekend. Boy were we wrong. Apparently since it was the start…
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