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Hand-woven wool products have a long history in the region, and this souvenir provides insight into how they were made and used by local people thousands of years ago.” -Zhicheng Guo, art designer, China A camera strap We visited the local production factory and learned about the beautiful patterns of the cushions, in which each shape has a meaning and each pattern is the first of its kind. “A hand-woven wool cushion and carpet from Turkey. That was, without a doubt, my best travel gift, the trip in which I fell in love with Paris, France, and the idea of travel itself.” -Clara Laguna, writer, Spain Hand-woven goods from Turkey We did all the touristy things possible, we accumulated a lot of anecdotes: I shared a little hotel room with my two brothers, I gave an emotional speech at sunset on a Bateau Mouche, and, to top it off, a painter made a very flattering portrait of me in Montmartre which has presided over my parents' living room ever since. My parents were celebrating 25 years of marriage and planned to travel alone to the city of love, but at the last moment, my mother decided that it would make her much happier if my two brothers and I traveled with them. Yes, it sounds unoriginal, but classics never die.

“The best travel gift I ever received was a trip to Paris. That gift literally changed the course of my life.” -Erin Florio, director of features and editorial franchises, U.S. I fell so hard for Europe that I returned a few months later for work, moved there after university, and have juggled a life that straddles the East Coast and Europe ever since. It sounds cliché but it wasn’t it was just Paris and it was marvelous. I could smell the boulangeries a woman in a bright orange coat ate a pastry as she walked down the street wicker chairs were lined against the bistros facing onto the roads as if anticipating the great spectacle that would become Paris during the height of the day. My friends and I exited the Metro early morning in the 10th arrondissement. I’d grown up what felt like a million miles from Europe and had spent weeks of my life dreaming of finally getting there. “During my first year of college, my parents gifted me a round-trip ticket to Paris for spring break (printed from the travel agency and tucked into the inside cover of a Lonely Planet Paris guidebook nonetheless).

Hotel Eden in Rome Niall Clutton/Hotel Eden A flight to Paris

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