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- 🐧 A job with 40,000 roommates | Bulletin #148
🐧 A job with 40,000 roommates | Bulletin #148
This week: are unicorns real? 🦄
Great North of Scotland Railway 📍 Braemar, Scotland 📸 The Edinburgh Enthusiast
While most countries choose national animals that actually exist- see: the bald eagle, the Tanzanian giraffe or the Canadian beaver- Scotland chose a unicorn. Not as a joke, but as a centuries-old symbol of purity, strength, and untamed power rooted in Celtic mythology. You'll find the mythical beast everywhere: carved into Edinburgh's architecture, stamped on the royal coat of arms, and standing guard outside palaces. Scotland looked at the entire animal kingdom and said, "No thanks, we'll take the imaginary horse with the horn."
🥳 THIS WEEK IN AWA AWESOMENESS
🛵 Scenes of Singapore
🏰 An Italian fortress
🎭 NYC’s historic theater
🎥 We want your videos!
It was a stupendous time in Singapore to say the least. Below: the places we’re still daydreaming about, presented as a curated list of stops that rewired our brains. Consider this the start of your unofficial itinerary- we think you’ll understand why we haven’t stopped talking about it…
🦁 Your Lion City Guide
🇸🇬 Spectacular Singaporean scenes
🌈 Want to ride the rainbow?
📸 A “Wes Anderson-ish” Singapore
 📍 Lucca, Italy 📸 Marjorie Becker Photography | OVERBUILT, UNDERATTACKEDIt took Lucca 144 years to build impenetrable walls against Renaissance cannons. They’ve never seen a single battle. They did save the city- just not from what anyone expected… |
 Apollo Theater 📍 New York, NY 📸 Filipe Russell | FROM BOOS TO BRAVOAt the Apollo, the audience decides your fate. The theater has launched legends like Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, and Lauryn Hill. But not every future star got cheers their first time on that Harlem stage. Some got booed. Some got the broom. So who survived and who didn't? |
 | COUNT PUFFINS FOR A LIVINGEvery evening just before sunset, volunteers on Skomer Island divide into sections, pull out hand-clickers, and count puffins on cliffs, at sea, and in the air. This isn’t just for fun - it's an actual conservation job! Over 40,000 puffins call this 1.13-square-mile Welsh island home each spring, and they're listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, making the annual census critical. Volunteers commit to roughly three months on the island, living rent-free in exchange for tallying threatened seabirds and welcoming day-trippers. So, whaddya say? Are you interested in clicking for a purpose? |
 📍 Mount Fuji, Japan 📸 Takashi Okita | WE WANT YOUR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS!Whether you stumbled upon an old-fashioned train, a colorful cable car, or perhaps a perfect shop window, capture a video and send it on over! We’ve been on the hunt for new AWA clips submitted by the Community… Submit your clips and they may just end up in a future AWA post! |
Greetings, Bulletin buddies! If you find this week’s Secret Link, you have the possibility to procure a Postcard Book, a perfectly pocket-sized parade of postcard-worthy places! Bonus points if you can say that sentence ten times fast 🗺️