hostel
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Since then, I’ve corresponded with Nimblewill Nomad, the record holder and caretaker of a hostel at Flagg Mountain, the start of the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Finally there was a trip to Germany where he was given the code to access a hostel room in Dusseldorf.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Her mother and grandmother are still living in a hostel seven years later -- just two of the many thousands of people evacuated from ruined buildings to cramped temporary lodgings.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Officials have approved plans to demolish the damaged complex and build a new hostel.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Later, Lori and I took a subway down to Greenwich Village and walked over to the Evangeline, a women’s hostel where she had been living.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
They were soon joined by young, adventurous backpackers, who filled hostels and traveled on the cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But after not hearing from her for two days, dad Nic frantically rang around hostels where she had been staying, before locating her in the intensive care unit of a Goa hospital.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The first U.S. case of Andes virus actually occurred in January 2018, in a woman who had stayed in cabins and youth hostels in the Andes region of Argentina and Chile.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
With blueprints in hand he tramped through the Japanese community—to hostels, trailer courts, other housing projects like ours— trying to find families who would invest in it.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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Her parental father and his family retinue, large and small, married and unmarried, were hosteled on the 12th floor of the Waldorf.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
Created last year, the place represents a subtrend in haute hosteling: an offsite annex of swish private rooms set up by an established traditional hostel — in this case the Violeta Hostel.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
When “Should I Stay or Should I Go” blasted from the sound system, it summarized my ambivalence toward the hostel — and about the haute hosteling concept in general.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
In fact he devoted a whole chapter of his guide to hostelling.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2018
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