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    Stop Making Fun Of My Hometown (Or, Why Small Cities Are Great)

    by Brenna Holeman November 12, 2012
    written by Brenna Holeman
    November 12, 2012
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    Ruminations On Santiago (& Other Things)

    by Brenna Holeman November 7, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman November 7, 2012

                Santiago, Chile It’s been a while since I’ve felt the way I do in Santiago – I’m in a big city now, a big city after…

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    Star-Gazing in Chile

    by Brenna Holeman November 5, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman November 5, 2012

        Elqui Valley, Chile Chile is blessed with some of the best skies in the world, and, in seven years time, will have the largest telescope on Earth. It boasts clear…

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    Perspectives in Salar de Uyuni

    by Brenna Holeman November 2, 2012
    written by Brenna Holeman
    November 2, 2012
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    That Day in Sri Lanka

    by Brenna Holeman October 29, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman October 29, 2012

    Mirissa, Sri Lanka In autumn of 2009, I was living in Japan, and, on a whim, booked a round-trip ticket to Colombo for a ten-day holiday. Before that, I hadn’t travelled much…

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    An Interview With This Battered Suitcase

    by Brenna Holeman October 26, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman October 26, 2012

    Check out this interview that the incredible vlogger ExpatKerri did with me in La Paz! I talk about travel romances, Colombian coffee, and what my life has been like for the past 7 years through…

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    The People We Encounter

    by Brenna Holeman October 25, 2012
    written by Brenna Holeman
    October 25, 2012
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    The Essential Items In My Backpack

    by Brenna Holeman October 22, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman October 22, 2012

    Waiting for the bus with my bag, Salento, Colombia I’ve been on the road for over two years now, not counting the few months I spent in Canada earlier this year. In…

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    How to Send a Package From La Paz, Bolivia

    by Brenna Holeman October 19, 2012
    by Brenna Holeman October 19, 2012

    The Post Office in La Paz, Bolivia I almost never write these sorts of “advice” posts, let alone location-specific ones, but I was inspired by the fact that, after sending a box…

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    Saying Goodbye

    by Brenna Holeman October 17, 2012
    written by Brenna Holeman
    October 17, 2012
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Hi, I'm Brenna

After travelling to more than 100 countries over the past 19 years, many of them solo, I write about travel a lot but I write about other things, too: break ups, buying way too much jewellery, and whisky, for example (none of those things are related, I swear). You’ll find a mix of advice, opinion pieces, and stories on this blog, but either way, I hope to make you want to read more. And up next? I'm now a single mom to a beautiful little boy, the biggest solo adventure I've ever been on. For more about me and what you'll find on This Battered Suitcase, click here.

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