I’d like to give you a more intimate taste of Valladolid and describe to you some of the efficient urban planning features I’ve noticed over the past months. Much of the architecture, street layout, and city flow is different from what we see in the U.S., all to accompany the unique customs and history of […]
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Have you ever eaten a Valencia Orange? Not only is it a type of orange sold in the U.S. … it’s an actual place! This past weekend my train tickets took me to Valencia, Spain, a Mediterranean coastal city known for a few things: oranges, horchata, paella and Las Fallas. Las Fallas is an annual […]
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If I was a Hungarian my name would be Sandor. I would be tall, dark and masculine with hairy arms and a Cro-Magnon forehead. I would smile occasionally: a repressed smile, because no matter how good things seemed there would always be this sense of impending doom–a calamity lurking around the corner. I would be […]
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Coming from UW-Stevens Point, I have acquired a relatively well-rounded outlook on wellness factors. Remember, the SPECIES model? Social, Physical, Environmental, Career, Intellectual, Emotional… Sexual? No, Spiritual! (Still got it!) I’ve been thinking about these things since arriving in Hungary, and I’ve made some observations comparing Hungary’s health to the U.S., particularly Stevens Point. Social: […]
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School is finally here! I’m a couple weeks late, but I started Uni! I was so excited to finally start my classes because I’ve been waiting a long while for this. Going to school in a different country is such a culture shock! Just because New Zealand is an English speaking country does not make […]
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After living in hostels and out of my suitcase for two weeks, I was more than ready to get to New Zealand and get my own bedroom and bathroom! So many things you take for granted when you have access to them everyday (like WiFi!). I can’t even explain how happy I was to finally […]
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I decided that the last few days I was spending in Australia were going to be on the Great Ocean Road, so I took a three-day trip from Adelaide to Melbourne and saw the most astonishing places I could ever imagine. I climbed to the highest point in Australia in the Grampian Mountains, spent a […]
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I’ve been wanting to travel for the longest time but I’ve never had the courage to actually get out and do it. It’s hard to leave my friends, family and boyfriend for such a long time but I figured I need to do this for myself. There is so much to see and I know […]
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After about a month of no extreme travels, my friends, Jessica and Natalie, and I embarked on our first big trip ‘alone’ to Porto, Portugal. After an impulsive craving to go from Jessica back in January, we booked flights to Porto not really knowing what we were in for. Turns out, we picked a supreme […]
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Public transportation in Europe is wonderful; anyone will tell you that. What they don’t tell you, however, is that you actually have to know how to use the transportation. For the navigationally challenged (read: Lee and Jared), this can be a situation. So, Jared and I got lost. It wasn’t the first time, and it […]
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