Laura Paquet


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Canadian Laura Byrne Paquet specializes in writing about ways travelers can live like locals on the road. She covers topics such as home swaps and rentals, language immersion schools, and more on her blog and La Vida Local.


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  • We interrupt this burgeoning travel writing career to bring you the parental visit.  Tidy up all those random books...
    » posted on 18 November 2009
  • As I leave the station, coffee in hand, the smell of yeast seeps through the traffic fumes of the clogged up arteries in...
    » posted on 19 November 2009
  • Assignment # 2 Rewrite 1: Transitions I put my camera down and smile at the mime, trying to dispel the thoughts. It is...
    » posted on 18 November 2009

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