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Friday Photo GalleryJune 1, 2013

Ducks in Love – Weekly Travel Photo

Situated five minutes walk from the Forum Metro station in Copenhagen there is a gorgeous little oasis. The small park and botanical garden sits alongside the University of Copenhagen's campus and is home to a wonderful assortment of green space, vibrant flowers, and even a small pond complete wi…

BackpackingMay 27, 2013

You Will Never Make Friends Sitting In A Dark Room By Yourself

It has been 22 months since I arrived at Copenhagen Airport lugging three over-sized suitcases and a backpack. I arrived in Denmark with lots of assumptions and unknowns and very little concrete data. The sum of my p…

BackpackingApril 25, 2013April 25, 2013

Meeting Royalty Abroad: A Danish Prince

As an American, I find the concept of royalty intriguing. I can't say I really know where I stand on the issue. On the one hand, it seems like a fun nod to history and a great added cultural dynamic to help represent …

BackpackingApril 1, 2013April 1, 2013

Life Abroad and the Loss of Innocence

As I stepped off of the curb and down onto an old cobblestone street in the historic district of Innsbruck, I found myself musing. A few minutes earlier a light mist, far too mild to even be considered rain, had begun…

Friday Photo GalleryMarch 29, 2013April 5, 2013

Oslo Culture Clash – Weekly Travel Photo

Today's feature highlights an interesting cross-section of history. Snapped in the Oslo Fjord, it is of a small fisherman's church (or shrine, I'm not sure which) *Scratch that, I've been told it is a converted lightho…

EuropeJanuary 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 person/organization/group or agency could be that daft, right? You want to believ…

BackpackingDecember 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 …

Friday Photo GalleryDecember 14, 2012December 11, 2012

Winter in Copenhagen – Weekly Travel Photo

Winter has arrived in Copenhagen. After a week of light snow, the lakes have started to freeze over and the city center has traded slick paving stones for a clean layer of white snow. I captured this moment late-aftern…

BackpackingDecember 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 Copenha…

EuropeNovember 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…