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Category AsiaPosted on March 26, 2013

Turning 28 Abroad and Reflecting on Success

As I sit here in a small internet cafe on a blustry Turkish day in the small coastal town of Bodrum, I find it hard to believe that I'm already celebrating my 28th birthday.  I suppose it isn't the most remarkable of birthdays.  It's not one that signifies becoming a man, earning new rights, or on…
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Category BackpackingPosted on February 6, 2013February 6, 2013

Live Better: How I Seek Inspiration

A few years ago I made an internal decision:  I was happy dedicating myself to my career and to "growing up" but that I was unwilling to simply blindly conform to what society told me I was supposed to do.  Perhaps the…
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Category EuropePosted on January 21, 2013

Denmark – Shame on You

There are moments when dealing with bureaucratic nonsense that leave you so stupefied you have trouble believing that what you're seeing and experiencing is real and not some complex miscommunication.  After all, no pe…
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Category AfricaPosted on January 12, 2013January 12, 2013

Crash Course Advice For Travel Photography

A huge chunk of the travel photos I see on a daily basis are horrible. Not just amateur shots from friends and strangers, but also from semi-professional travel bloggers and established travel brands.  It always amazes…
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Category BackpackingPosted on December 20, 2012July 1, 2014

Real Danish Food: Nørrebro’s Little Smørrebrød Shop

Authentic Danish food is the Sasquatch of the Euro-Scandinavian culinary scene.  There's Noma of course, as well as a small army of Michelin Star restaurants but talking about them as authentic outlets for Danish food …
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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 AfricaPosted on October 15, 2012October 15, 2012

Travel Fears: Squat Toilets and Spray Hoses

[caption id="attachment_2457" align="aligncenter" width="614"] Photo by David Berger[/caption] I began this series of posts with a piece exploring the topic of race.  In the 2nd I tackled disease, HIV and hypochondria…
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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 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 …
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Alex Berger

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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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