The idea to volunteer in a refugee camp came out of a certain guilt we both felt. Guilt about taking a polluting flight and shame of being so rich we can just go wherever we want. So to pay off our debt to the world we decided to do something that we both found important […]
Europe
Coming home, twice
Coming home, part 1 It took me a while to write about this last part of my trip. Partly because I’ve been super caught up in the coming home process; meeting with friends and family, finding a (temporary) place to live, trying to catch up with some administration, finding a job, working… Next to that […]
The old and the new Tallinn
Tallinn, Estonia. A not so well-known city in a not so well-known country. At least for most Western Europeans. We (well I at least) mostly consider the Baltic States as a special kind of Eastern European countries although we are not even really sure how exactly these countries are geographically situated and what their capitals […]
Food, Coffee & Other Scandinavian delicacies
I love coffee. But as some of my friends may know, I kind of have a love-hate relationship with this liquid: I am super sensitive for caffeine. This means two things: 1. I am physically addicted really easily. So only a habit of drinking one cup of coffee a day, makes me suffer from severe headaches […]
People of Sweden
Michaël Randrianaridera I met Michaël on the central station (T-Centralen) in Stockholm at 5 in the morning. I took the Flix night bus from Malmö to Stockholm (I managed to find a ticket for 10 euro, so the fact that I hate overnighters was not that important anymore) and arrived at the bus terminal in […]
Hamburg & Copenhagen
First destination(s) first post! My trip started last thursday, the 15th of September. I booked a ride with Blablacar, a car sharing platform in Europe. A german guy, called Jan, would drop me at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (central station), which became my first stopover. And Jan, after hearing my story, would become my first international follower. […]