In 2011 I had my first solo trip abroad, to the country of Macedonia. There I spent time with some of my online friends. The next year I was invited back for their wedding, and so in the summer of 2012 I ventured back to Macedonia to partake in a traditional Macedonian wedding. Preparations Before … Continue reading Macedonian Wedding
This is part 3 of 3 in my series about my 2018 trip to Lebanon. For other parts click below: Part 1 - Beirut & Bekaa Valley Part 2 - The North Day 5: Going south - Tyre and Sidon On my final day in the country, my aim was to head south, and see … Continue reading Criss-crossing the Paris of the East: Part 3 – The South
This is part 2 of 3 in my series about my 2018 trip to Lebanon. For other parts click below: Part 1 - Beirut & Bekaa Valley Part 3 - The South Day 3: Going north - Tripoli and Byblos No rest for the weary, and so early next morning I ventured to the Kola-junction … Continue reading Criss-crossing the Paris of the East: Part 2 – The North
This is part 1 of 3 in my series about my 2018 trip to Lebanon. For other parts click below: Part 2 - The North Part 3 - The South Background, and general introduction to Lebanon In April 2018 I had a couple of days off from work, and decided to head to the Middle … Continue reading Criss-crossing the Paris of the East: Part 1 – Beirut & the Bekaa Valley
When I went to Iran for the first time, I met a lot of worried responses, mainly because of how skewed and plain wrong the media portrayal of Iran is. Especially my parents had a lot of worries on my behalf. On one account they might have had a valid concern, on the worry that … Continue reading Identity and traveling
Armenia is probably the country that I've explored the most, relatively speaking. It is not a very big country, at a mere 29.700 square kilometers, which makes it even smaller than my own tiny country of Denmark, so having explored almost every corner of the country is not as impressive a feat as you might … Continue reading Best of Armenia
Beware that this article is written almost 3 years after this trip, so some details are very likely to be blurred, or missing. In 2015 during a trip to Armenia, I had a chance to visit the breakaway republic of Nagorno Karabakh (known as Artsakh in Armenia). Historical background It's a disputed Armenian enclave … Continue reading Nagorno Karabakh, and my worst travel-illness yet
