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Culture, Europe, Italy, Rome, Travel

Beat the Crowds at Rome’s Hidden Cultural Sites

August 12, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

Previously published on Matador Network Travelstoke. The Colosseum, the Vatican Museums, the Trevi Fountain. We know them and love them, but unfortunately so does everyone else. If you want to skip the throngs of tour groups and sight-seers, make haste to one of these under-appreciated but equally-illuminating cultural sites in the Eternal City. 1. Galleria Doria Pamphilj The Galleria Doria Pamphilij…

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Culture, Europe, Featured, Italy, Rome, Travel

The Keats-Shelley House in Rome: Take into the Air My Quiet Breath

July 8, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

My top three literary bucket list items are ✅✅✅: the Keats House in Hampstead, Keats’ grave at the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, and the Keats-Shelly House in Rome. Did you pick up on a pattern? John Keats captivated my imagination in high school: I even carried a pocket version of his selected poems in my back pocket my entire senior year.…

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Culture, Europe, Featured, Italy, Rome, Travel

Your Guide to Beating the Crowds at the Vatican Museums (and Having the Sistine Chapel to Yourself!)

June 5, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

The Sistine Chapel is the single greatest artistic, cultural, and spiritual accomplishment of the Western world. Faced with the perils of the Vatican Museums — long lines, thick crowds, labyrinthine passageways — spending quality alone time with Michelangelo’s frescoes can be the the greatest accomplishment of your trip to the Vatican. Without further ado, here is a semi fool-proof method…

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Culture, Europe, Featured, Rome, Travel

“The Holiest Place in Rome:” The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Testaccio

May 7, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

Spending a significant amount of time in a city like Rome can be daunting. The energy and rhythms of the caput mundi can invigorate a traveler’s soul while simultaneously wearing it down like 2,000 year old travertine. Rome’s quiet escapes, enchanted with light and history, make the jittery bus rides and lengthy queues worthwhile. One special place, chief among Rome’s…

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Côte d'Azur, Culture, Europe, Featured, France, Italy, London, Paris, Provence, Rome, Travel, Travel Journal, United Kingdom

Phew! Reflecting on 18 Days of Non-Stop European Travel

April 3, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

From the middle of March to the end of April, Josh Travels Sometimes to Europe, starting in London and making his way down to the south of France and ultimately to Rome. From Rome, our intrepid traveler will somehow manage the work-life balance of a temporary digital nomad. These are his stories. Phew. Of all the words in the English…

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Culture, Dining, Las Vegas

Bagelmania Serves Up the Best Bagels in Las Vegas

February 13, 2018 by Joshua Chévere Cohen

Nothing conjures up my childhood like a good old fashioned Jewish deli. The corned beef, the lox, the brightly-colored soda bottles, the grumpy regulars and their strange aftershave, but above all else the bagels. No breakfast seemed complete without a warm bagel fresh from the oven, topped with a schmear of alabaster cream cheese to transform the leavened discus into…

Assortment of bagels at Bagelmania deli in Las Vegas.

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Joshua Chévere Cohen is the founder, editor-in-chief, and creative director of Josh Travels Sometimes. A writer with degrees in both English Literature and History, Cohen brings a poetic, darkly humorous, and helplessly Europhile perspective to the world of travel writing.

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  • Buncha Blarney.
  • Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid, 
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago; a church stands near,
By the road an ancient Cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase, 
On limestone quarried near the spot 
By his command these words are cut:  Cast a cold eye  On life, on death.  Horseman, pass by!
  • Florence is all about panini. 🥪🤤
  • The Force will be with you. Always. #topical
  • Villa Adriana, the opulent ruins of the Emperor Hadrian’s home and center of government. The short train journey from Rome to Tivoli is worth the day trip.
  • This Ugly Duckling loves the new @timburton pieces at @theneonmuseumlasvegas. 🦆 #quackACKACKACK
  • A sleepy Roman alleyway with a humble plea.
  • ACK ACK ACK ACK. @timburton at @theneonmuseumlasvegas. #ackackackack
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  • Lest I babble.
  • Oscar and Dermot in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
  • It’s October and I’m here for the spoops. 💀
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