Copenhagen City Tip – Visit A Cemetery
Unless you have some sort of obsession with visiting the final resting places of famous people, most folks don't find themselves with a visit to a city's cemetery on the top of their city to-do list. …
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This is How You Eat in Copenhagen For Less Than 100 DKK
There's one essential rule for enjoying a city: it always looks better on a full stomach. In Copenhagen, that can be surprisingly difficult to accomplish for students and budget travelers alike. With a minimum wage tha…
A 7 Day Road Trip Through Rural Scotland Day III
[caption id="attachment_2874" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The route, color coded by day, I took during my road trip through the Highlands.[/caption]
In Part I of this series I shared with you the adventures and e…
A Bridge in Ghent – Weekly Travel Photo
There is a magical charm to walking historic European cities in the crisp cool air of a fall evening. While wandering the historic center of the Belgian city of Ghent, I found myself pausing beside the intricate pat…
Men, It Is Long Past Time to Study Abroad
Despite these massive surges in the number of students studying abroad, it turns out the majority of western exchange students are women. This has left educators and study abroad students alike asking themselves, "Wh…
Fancy Danish Smorrebrod
It's delicious, it's distinctly Nordic, it's relatively healthy, and it's surprisingly more complicated than one would think. What is it? It's Danish Smørrebrød or "Smorrebrod". In the past I've written about local Danish cuisine and more specifically the every-day variety of Danish smørrebrød …
8 Ways Turkey Is Nothing Like You Expect
With the recent protests in Turkey the country has been launched into the news for the second time this year. As many of you may recall Turkey was previously in the spotlight when a female American backpacker was murd…
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…
When Sky, Fire and Water Meet
The sweat from my palms soaked the steering wheel as the tense muscles in my hip throbbed. My body was on edge and had been for the entirety of the drive south. Upon arriving in Zambia, I'd been informed by my family…
Rain Over The Scottish Highlands – Weekly Travel Photo
Located in the heart of Scotland, this wonderful lake and overlook draws tourists in part because its shape mirrors a map of Scotland. Each time I visit Scotland I find my way back to it - Loch Garry. During a trip th…