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Jane Johnson gave up her life in the UK to marry a Berber tribesman

Can you imagine giving up everything you know to move to a different country…on another continent…to marry a man who doesn’t live like a Westerner? I’m cool with all three parts of that statement, but not even I can imagine pulling a move like Jane Johnson‘s. The Sultan’s Wife author moved to the mountains of northern Morocco to marry a Berber tribesman. Though Berbers aren’t barbarians (though, literally translated, the word means just that), I just can’t picture myself riding a camel to work, covering myself up (no V-neck T-shirts? I wouldn’t last a week!) or living in a country where drinking isn’t a socially accepted custom. God knows how an English woman is managing the latter. Though I personally wouldn’t make this personally trek for love, Jane did — and found her happy ending. This is her story. more…

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This couple found love abroad and defied the odds after four years of struggle

Like Crazy isn’t just a movie — couples from different countries struggle to find a way to be together every single day. Australian citizen Frances Farnan spent the last four years trying to be with Burundi-born Yves Nininahazwe. With hope and strength, they prevailed. more…

What is it, where did it come from and do you have it? I know I do…

When I was a wee slip of a girl, I knew I had wanderlust without even knowing what it truly meant. I liked to roam wild and had an insatiable Iggy Pop-style lust for life. As an adult, the actual definition — a “strong desire for or impulse to travel and explore the world” — still rings true. And now, after hearing the findings of a new study published in the journal Nature, I’m convinced this is the word that fully explains my desire to lovetrek: research suggests that prehistoric cavewomen also had the travel bug — but that they roamed the world in order to hunt for mates. Coincidence?  more…