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How to See the Best of Japan in A Week (1 Week Japan Itinerary)

January 5, 2023 by Silvia 35 Comments

Motonosumi Inari Shrine

Updated January 2023 I always call Norway my second home, but there's also another country that I lived in almost as long as Norway - Japan! I spent a year in Nishinomiya, near Kobe, and two years on Tanegashima in southern Japan, and yet I've never really written much about ...

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11 Actually Fun Things to Do in Japan – from a Local!

January 5, 2023 by Silvia 10 Comments

purikura photos

Updated January 2023 After living in Japan for three years (one as a child and two as an adult), I have a lot of thoughts about your trip to Japan. In my last post I shared an itinerary for what I'd consider a perfect one week trip to Japan. It covered the two Japan trip musts ...

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23 Things to Do in Stavanger, Norway – From a Local!

January 4, 2023 by Silvia Leave a Comment

Fargegaten Stavanger Norway

To be perfectly honest I only recently realized what a wonderful city Stavanger is to visit. I had driven through Stavanger several times and never thought much of it, but I also had never spent the time to properly explore the city. But then my friend Vanessa moved to Stavanger ...

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How to Photograph Northern Lights – Exact Camera & iPhone Settings

January 4, 2023 by Silvia 12 Comments

northern lights svalbard norway

Since moving to Tromsø I've been posting lots of northern lights photos, so I guess it makes sense that one of the most common questions I get asked is how to photograph the northern lights. And while snapping a great photo of the northern lights isn't quite as simple as pointing ...

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New City, New Blog!

December 21, 2022 by Silvia 5 Comments

norwegian cookbook

My travels have slowed down a lot over the past few years, which has meant that I haven't had as much to write about here. And while I've been happy to travel a bit less, I have missed the blogging part of travel blogging. And so I started to wonder if there's any other kind of ...

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