- Unique Christmas Gifts - A holiday shopping guide for those away from home
- Tis the season to let the holiday spirit cleanse your soul and get you closer to the ones you love. A great way to impress them is with a unique gift from the many local, one-of-a-kind shops around the world.
- From diamonds in Amsterdam or Cape Town to magic dolls in Lisbon to fair-trade goods, our local experts provide a shopping guide no matter where you are in the world!
Local Experts Review: Holiday Shopping

- Christina Macone-Greene writes:
Holiday Shopping in San Diego "It's a fact that San Diego style shopping has a way of delivering smiles every holiday season. With so many shopping venues to choose from, here is a quick highlight to what San Diego has to offer, along with my favorite personal picks."

- Chiara
writes:
Christmas Shopping in Rome "Oh dear, Christmas is here (yes, rhymes are allowed during the holidays!) and you?ve got absolutely no idea what to give to your girlfriend/ mother/ father/ sister/ friend/ grandparents and worst of all, you?re in Rome."

- Maria Olia writes:
Gifted: Boston?s Best Stores for Holiday Shopping "Tired of the same old, same old holiday shopping? Check out this list of five favorite local Boston businesses where you can shop for unique gifts for your family and friends."

- Marianne
writes:
One-of-a-kind gift for Children "Most travel guides only give lists of shops meant for adults and teens. Amsterdam has quite a few shops for under tens who like to go shopping with their mum or dad."

- Alexandre Kuhl Oliveira writes:
The perfect gift for a child - Magic dolls "If you're looking for a one-of-a-kind gift for your children, this may be it. Here you'll find magic dolls, books and music CD done by a small familiar group of people dedicated to the fulfilment of a dream."
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- One-of-a-kind gift for Children
Most travel guides only give lists of shops meant for adults and teens. Amsterdam has quite a few shops for under tens who like to go shopping with their mum or dad.
- Shopping In Athens
Athens has various shopping areas. The outskirts and some suburbs have shops worth visiting as well. For example, Glyfada is the seaside neighborhood always crowded with people in the expensive shops of all kinds.
- Christmas Shopping in the South
I've listed out five of the the most unique locations in Atlanta to find a gift for someone, whether they be an audiophile to a hiker, a bath taker to a painter...
- 10 Stores with Unique Goodies: A Barcelona Gift Guide
The holidays?. I can't help but love them. Here in Barcelona the city has gone all out putting up extra lights (to encourage buying, say city officials) and Christmas flare throughout town.
- Where to find one-of-a-kind gifts in Belgrade
New year is the busiest time for Belgrade and 31st of December is the day when there is no possibility to find anything as virtually all shops will be closed.
- Christmas markets
Then I discovered the German Christmas markets. Oh, these light filled havens of sparkly seasonal items! Rosy cheeked natives huddled round mugs of spiked mulled wine! The wooden huts!
- Gifted: Boston?s Best Stores for Holiday Shopping
Tired of the same old, same old holiday shopping? Check out this list of five favorite local Boston businesses where you can shop for unique gifts for your family and friends.
- Shopping, Hungarian-style
With the holiday season in full swing, it's time to find something really special. Just to give you a hand if you're shopping for that something special in Budapest, here is our short guide to holiday shopping!
- Christmas Shopping At the Fairs
December is a very special month in Buenos Aires. To summarize it in one word I would choose "hectic". It is not just the end of the year, it literally means the end of many activities for a great number of porteños.
- Khanya Creations
Shopping in Cape Town can be a similar experience to shopping anywhere in the world after all a mall is a mall no matter where you are travelling.
- Insider's Guide: Chicago's Best Shopping
Shopping, shopping, shopping - one of Chicago's great pasttimes and no better time than now during the holidays to experience some of the city's best boutiques and shops.
- Top Places To Find One of a Kind Gifts In Denver
The holiday shopping season is upon us and everyone is looking for that special gift. Finding unique gifts is especially hard these days in the era of big box stores and look alike malls.
- The Shopping List
One-of-a-kind gifts are hard to come by if you're browsing your way around an unfamiliar city. With the big Christmas day just around the corner (less than two weeks to go) here are a few tips on where to start the search in Dublin...
- Christmas Shopping
Looking for a gift for that hard-to-buy-for relative or friend? Try one of these helpful spots on Edinburgh's shopping scene...
- Shop til you Drop: Italian Outlet Shopping
For what seems like centuries, the Italians have always dressed well. From their luxurious papal robes to the queen?s lavish gowns, to the annual fashion shows in Milano, Italians have been the envy of their neighbors...
- Holiday Happenings in Hong Kong
If you are thinking of traveling over the Christmas/New Years holiday, Hong Kong is an excellent destination.
- The perfect gift for a child - Magic dolls
If you're looking for a one-of-a-kind gift for your children, this may be it. Here you'll find magic dolls, books and music CD done by a small familiar group of people dedicated to the fulfilment of a dream.
- One of a Kind L.A.
It almost reads like an oxymoron since the entire City of Los Angeles can be described as "one of a kind." But, it's the holiday season, and we're talking shopping here.
- Weird Shops in Madrid
The holiday shopping season is upon us, but why get those boring old gifts everyone gives? If you're in Madrid, you can find something your friends or family will really remember you by.
- Greenbelt 5: Lavish Finds for X'mas
Over the holidays, you’ll probably be shopping for tons of gifts but there is bound to be one present that puts the others in the backseat. So if you’re searching for something that’ll leave them gasping in astonishment and gratitude then go to Greenbelt 5
- Upscale Shopping in Mexico City
I'm almost wincing as I write this, because I don't particularly enjoy shopping in chain stores and I'm definitely not what you'd consider an upscale shopper, but I realize that people travel for different reasons...
- Miami Gifting - From High Chic to Down Home
During these times, smart holiday shopping might include making purchases that represent authenticity and the product of unique effort, along with supporting the individual businesses that makes this metropolis special.
- Here Comes Santa Claus...
Instead of giving a gift that was made by the thousands (by little elves, of course), here is where you can purchase hand-made gifts that are truly special.
- Munich's Christmas Markets...5 weeks left!
Where better to spend the Christmas holidays than Munich? Where did the Christmas trees, Santa Claus or Advent Calendars come from? You've guessed it! Germany.
- Top Holiday NYC Shops Off the Beaten Path
Sure Rockefeller Center is the go-to holiday shopping epicenter packed tight with festivity and crowds, but this year is different right?
- Paris Holiday Shopping
If you are lucky enough to be doing your holiday shopping Paris, your loved ones back home are probably expecting something at the very least French, if not entirely Parisian.
- To market, to market
Just as the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S., that day is also important in Prague, as it marks the opening of the city's quaint and magical Christmas markets.
- Shopping for the one-of-a-kind gift in Quebec city
Quebec city being a one of a kind place, one can justly expect to get one of a kind gifts for the person who, event if he or she has everything, will appreciate your finding a one o a king gift for him or her.
- Christmas Presents With a Difference
Prepare to clear some space in your suitcase ? if you?re looking for one-of-a-kind Christmas presents for the folks back home, you?re in the right city.
- Christmas Shopping in Rome
Oh dear, Christmas is here (yes, rhymes are allowed during the holidays!) and you?ve got absolutely no idea what to give to your girlfriend/ mother/ father/ sister/ friend/ grandparents and worst of all, you?re in Rome.
- Holiday shopping in San Diego
It's a fact that San Diego style shopping has a way of delivering smiles every holiday season. With so many shopping venues to choose from, here is a quick highlight to what San Diego has to offer...
- Heads up Santa! There's a new toy store in town...
Dearest Santa,
If you happen to be swinging through San Francisco and need to do some Christmas shopping, you are in luck.
- Shopping Guide: Kitch, Neat-o, and Nostalgia
Crafty types aren't the only shopping game in town, however. There is always the (in)famous Archie McPhee located in the Ballard neighborhood.
- Targeted shopping. Recommendations
Many shops offer many nice goods, many people love ordinary things and ordinary gifts. But if you have a gift for looking for gifts, I give you a tip where to find unusual things or where to buy with pleasure in St. Petersburg.
- Two very odd, but very fresh markets to shop at!
So are you stuck on the christmas present you were meant to buy for that cousin of yours with very strange obsession about blue plastic things? Is there something you just simply cannot find anywhere?
- One-of-a-Kind Gifts in Toronto
Avoid the malls and big box stores this season. Find your loved ones gifts that no one else will get.
- How to escape the Christmas stampede at the malls
Are you stumped as to what to buy that is unique and special for your best friend, parent or a child this Christmas? Would you rather avoid the malls that can be like zoos at this time of year?
- Who Knows Leather Best? The Owl Craftsman!
Christmas time is the one time during the year where you really need to think about other people and what you can get them for a present.



