Travel Blogs – Page 20 – VirtualWayfarer

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 is a bit like talking about a brand new Bentley as a solid, reliable, every-day …

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…

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…

AfricaDecember 3, 2012December 8, 2012

Safari: The Emotional Side

Let's face it, when the time comes to set out for a safari, most of us have a pretty simple checklist. We want to see amazing animals in wonderful natural settings. Among the most desired animals are predators - big …

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 to see the Cappadocia region covered in a layer of snow. The stone spires that …

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…

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…

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…

Friday Photo GalleryNovember 16, 2012

Polar Bears Touching Noses – Weekly Travel Photo

Not only is this week Polar Bear Week, it's also getting pretty darn cold here in Denmark. So, for today's Friday Photo I've selected these two polar bears giving each other a playful nose nuzzle mid-fight. Luckily the…