Europe – Page 14 – VirtualWayfarer

AfricaDecember 30, 2012December 30, 2012

My Top 5 Travel Videos From 2012

In 2012 I filmed a ton of HD video footage as part of my mission to do more videos. A lot of that footage still needs to be edited. My equipment has also improved a lot over the course of the year as has my understanding of how to create and edit a video. Ultimately, I ended up uploading 22 v…

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 Cop…

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…

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…

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 August I had the chance to re-visit one of Europe's most famous cities. Instead …

BackpackingSeptember 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…

BackpackingSeptember 4, 2012September 4, 2012

My Mistake – How I Overlooked Camden

Is Camden Dangerous? Let's start with the basics...this post should likely be titled - "Camden - You're not going to get shot, stabbed, murdered, or bludgeoned to death" but that seemed slightly too long and obtuse.…

BackpackingAugust 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 …

BackpackingJuly 30, 2012July 2, 2012

36 Hours in Bologna Isn’t Nearly Enough

"Hi Mom and Dad, I ended up taking a quick detour before returning to Copenhagen. I hope all is wel-wait, what?" "You studied in Bologna? I thought you did your semesters abroad in Sienna?" "Really? Both!? Wow!…