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AfricaDecember 24, 2012December 29, 2012

2012 – A Year of Travel In Photographs

2012 was one of my best travel years to date. In it I added two new continents, four brand new countries and scratched some pretty major destinations off my bucket list. In addition to completing my first year in Copenhagen I made it to the United Arab Emirates, Scotland, England, Germany, Swede…

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 …

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…

Friday Photo GalleryDecember 7, 2012

Scotland’s Hermitage Waterfall – Weekly Travel Photo

Located about 50 miles north of Edinburgh is one of Scotland's small gems: the Hermitage. A beautiful site, this small park is a National Trust for Scotland location and rests along the River Braan. Depending on the…

Friday Photo GalleryNovember 30, 2012

Snow Covered Cappadocia – Weekly Travel Photo

In February of last year I found myself in the heart of one of Turkey's worst cold spells in 25 years. The bad news was that it was absolutely freezing (lows bottomed out at -21 C) but the upside was I had the chance …

Friday Photo GalleryNovember 23, 2012

Pure Beauty in Berlin – Weekly Travel Photo

One of my favorite things about Berlin is Museum Island. It embodies the type of cultural dedication to art and history that I wish all cities, cultures and nations shared and emulated. For those unfamiliar with it, it is essentially an island in the heart of Berlin which has a number of Berlin's …

BackpackingNovember 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…

BackpackingNovember 12, 2012November 12, 2012

Biting Back – Bed Bugs, Treatment, Hostels and Hotels

Over the years travel has left me with a few scars. Small injuries, cuts and scrapes from various poorly thought out misadventures are responsible for a few but by and far the most prolific culprit is the common bedbu…

Friday Photo GalleryNovember 10, 2012

Zambian Village Life – Friday Travel Photo

This photo was taken along the Zambia/DRC border in Luapula Provice, northern Zambia. Connecting with my brother who is a Peace Corps Volunteer in the region we stopped at another volunteer's village for lunch. As we g…

AfricaOctober 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…