When I open the first page of a book, the promise of it being lifechanging lingers in between the pages. So does the smell of a library or a small book store (my favorite!) enchant me. To me it smells like the promise of a hundred worlds at your finger tips, a hundred genius minds […]
I used to be a huge bookworm, back in the day in my early teens, when schoolwork was done in less than an hour, school generally ended earlier and there was no such thing as Netflix. Well, hence I had a lot more time on my hands. I would sit in my hammock chair, which […]
Let me tell you a story of how I completely insulted my host mother’s cuisine solely by eating a noodle soup the wrong way. Unintentionally of course. Please learn from my mistakes and enjoy reading about my faux-pas eating noodle soup in China.
I’d like to take you along on my very first real day visiting Shanghai with my most wonderful friend, a native to this extraordinary city. I’ll show and tell you about the best six things to see and do in this gigantic city, if you only have a day to visit, all whilst taking you […]
Read my diary entry on how those chinese symbols confused me to desperation, how that messed with my sleep and all in all wellbeing in my first night at my friends house in Shanghai, China.
Finally, a moment I had been waiting for, anxiously, for now eight years was so close I could almost grasp it. After all that chaos at the airport, my well rested and happy mood had experienced a slight drop and I wasn’t so sure anymore about wanting to experience the next moment. What if I […]
My arrival at Shanghai airport in China wasn’t as smooth as I anticipated having gone through the long VISA process beforehand. A high heartrate, sweat and a little bit of panic were involved as I entered China, as my first destination travelling solo for the first time.
Hello beautiful people of the internet! Last time I blogged was quite a while ago. Thanks so much for sticking around! I was gone for a while, because I hardly went anywhere, all I did was study all day long, maybe see friends, go to the gym.. that was it. Now I am on summer […]
“Swim in the sea at night and look up at the stars” Number four of my Life List was one thing that when I wrote it two years ago I was kind of afraid of actually doing it. I mean it sounded extremely romantic, but also very, very scary. I thought of the dark, not […]
Earlier this summer I embarked on a trip with my girls to Croatia. We stayed a week on the peninsula of Istria. One of our trips to the cities around us was to Poreč, where we had planned a little kayak tour to not neglect our fitness, as well as a long walk through town. […]