January – Kyoto

January – Kyoto

As I had never traveled anywhere in Asia before, I was expecting Japan to feel exotic and strange. I was looking forward to feeling completely out of place – within 48 hours, I felt at “home” (currently, that means comfortable and I know how to get...

December – Lisbon

  “The best way to travel is to feel” Pessoa wrote, “so feel everything in every possible way.” Fernando Pessoa is one of the most famous poets from Portugal. He had 136 alter-egos according to a recent anthology (Eu Sou Uma Antologia...

November – NYC, Prague, Budapest, Paris …

This month was more eventful than it should have been. On November first, I flew home for a week because my father missed me so much, he decided to have an emergency operation to make me come back. It worked! He had me for a week to annoy him into recovery 🙂 I finally...

Third week, Split

The third weekend in Split we traveled to Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo is a 4 hr drive from Split. We left a bit late in the evening and trusted googlemaps … About 10pm in the pitch black, I am driving a tiny, manual car over gravel...

Second week, Split

The second weekend was filled with activities organized by Remote Year to get to know the local area better. I chose the track with adventure 🙂 We met one of the women (all from Croatia) who made up the first all-women group to climb Mt Everest. Saturday, we went on a...