Of course I'll eventually start writing about travel again, but right now recapping my recent trip to Scotland or giving out advice for visiting Norway still makes me feel a bit sad! My friend asked me to write something cheerful, so I spent this morning scrolling through old ...
12 Languages Later, My Best Tips for Learning a Foreign Language
Updated March 2020 Uh... yeah, I just counted how many foreign languages I've studied so far in my life and it's been twelve! Though in defense of the version of me that isn't 100% nerd, I only studied about seven of those languages with any real intensity or ...
11 Ways Living in Norway Prepared Me for Social Distancing
Norwegians had winter break at the end of February, which now seems like very poor timing indeed to have been traveling around Europe. It's all very stressful and scary, but what's done is done, so what can we do now to prevent further spread of infection? Social ...
How I Found Help Through a Difficult Time
We're in strange times, and travel hasn't been on my mind much this past week. What has been on my mind a lot is mental health. I mean yes, we're all worried about spreading this virus and affecting people's physical health, but time in isolation and uncertainty over lost income ...
11 Things You Should Know Before Visiting The Lofoten Islands
Updated February 2020 If you want to see some of Norway's most beautiful landscape, you couldn't go wrong with a trip to Lofoten. Actually, maybe you could. Here are a few things you should know about the Lofoten Islands when planning a trip there: The weather is going ...