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View EU travel stories and adventures from trips backpacking, hosteling, exploring and studying abroad in Europe.

Category BackpackingPosted on December 11, 2012December 14, 2012

Snow Covered Copenhagen

How do you take a picturesque city with beautifully colored buildings, elegant canals, and wide pedestrian streets and make it even more picture perfect?   You add snow.  At least, that seems to be the approach Copenhagen takes a couple of times a year.   Despite its northern location, Copenhagen'…
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Category EuropePosted on November 25, 2012

Please Don’t Segregate Me!

It's one of the fundamental but often overlooked or ignored pleas that international students make. As a full degree student (someone doing an entire MA program here in Denmark) one of my biggest concerns and top prior…
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Category BackpackingPosted on November 20, 2012

Berlin’s Dramatic Contrast Explored Through Art

Berlin is famous for a plethora of reasons.  Of those one of the most well known is its character.  It is a wild city of contrasts both within the city limits and when explored alongside greater Germany as a whole.  In A…
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Category BackpackingPosted on September 10, 2012April 23, 2013

Avoid Wrecking Your Study Abroad Experience

The bartender leaned across the dark stained wood that marked a bar that had heard and seen the drunken adventures of revelry makers for decades.  In a thick Irish accent he rambled off, "What'll ya' take darlin?" with…
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Category BackpackingPosted on September 4, 2012September 4, 2012

My Mistake – How I Overlooked Camden

Is Camden Dangerous? Let's start with the basics...this post should likely be titled - "Camden - You're not going to get shot, stabbed, murdered, or bludgeoned to death" but that seemed slightly too long and obtuse.…
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Category BackpackingPosted on August 6, 2012June 29, 2012

Tight Places – Fear

Fear gripped me. My teeth ground against each other. This wasn't an old friend, it was something new. My feet kicked at thin air desperately. I moved half an inch. Sweat beaded on my forehead, collecting dust and then running into my eyes. My arms burned as my fingers dug at the hard packed clay s…
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Category BackpackingPosted on July 30, 2012July 2, 2012

36 Hours in Bologna Isn’t Nearly Enough

"Hi Mom and Dad, I ended up taking a quick detour before returning to Copenhagen.  I hope all is wel-wait, what?" "You studied in Bologna?  I thought you did your semesters abroad in Sienna?" "Really?  Both!?  Wow!…
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Category BackpackingPosted on July 23, 2012July 2, 2012

Tales of Narnia, or Should I Say Narni?

Roused from our beds by the golden rays of the Umbrian sun we began what would round out our two and a half-day adventure through Umbria. Slowly rubbing the last traces of sleep from my eyes I found myself once again s…
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Category BackpackingPosted on July 16, 2012July 1, 2012

Glorious Sunsets Combined With Delightful Fish, Fowl and Truffles

Following a wonderful walking tour of Orvieto we found ourselves checking into la Penisola country resort and restaurant. The resort is situated on a small peninsula along the shore of Lake Corbara in the heart of Umbr…
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Category BackpackingPosted on July 9, 2012April 26, 2013

The Fortress City – Orvieto, Umbria, Italy

My shoulders drifted forward slightly then slammed back into the padded bus seat as our forward momentum temporarily slowed and the driver slipped the bus into gear.  We were crawling up a steep, winding road towards t…
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In 2007 I set out on a three-month solo trip through Europe, in 2011 I re-located to Copenhagen. I’ve been authoring VirtualWayfarer ever since with a focus on sharing stories, musings, and advice through a visually and narrative rich format. I’m also the author of Practical Curiosity: The Guide to Life, Love & Travel and the inventor of the MistDefender lens cloth.

I document my travels on a Sony A7RV and iPhone 16Pro.

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