south sudan

hello hello i am not only an official year older but also a year less wise. woop woop. i am also one trip to copenhagen richer and let me tell you, i ate. i ate a lot. i ate it all. the only time i wasn’t eating was when i was bingeing “ripley” and during

comoros

dearest reader (this author has been rewatching “bridgerton” and this seems like the only appropriate way to address my audience currently) as i write this, i have just returned from a lovely trip to vienna with my dear friend cora and am finding myself in somewhat of a daze caused by a night train journey

angola

why, hello there. fancy seeing you here! how’s your april been treating you thus far? mine has come with a shortening of hair, a bluening of foot and a surprisening of budapest. the latter was in fact a surprise solo-trip i was gifted by my lovely julien (thank you again!!!), and included a lot of

georgia

spring has sprung and so have i! or at least, spring is tentatively reaching out its feelers for a tender butterfly kiss on the tip of one’s nose. which is pretty dang nice for mid-march. my mum and i shared our first sunny terrace lunch today, so the change of the seasons is in full

central african republic

happy sunday, my happy sundays. whilst i wouldn’t say spring has sprung quite just yet, the first birds are certainly a-chirpin’ and our darling vespa denise has been in much more constant use again. maybe this spring awakening is partially thanks to the myriad of swiss fasnachts (is that the plural? fasnächt? fasnachten?), the purpose

north korea

happy sunday how’s life? your family? pals? lovers? i won’t lie, it has been a bit of a weird one. without wanting to get too melodramatic about things, but losing a pet is absolutely harrowing and it’s been taking up a lot of emotional headspace. that being said, there have still been many positives, such

vanuatu

hello, dearest snowmen and -women (assuming you’re anywhere near me and have been hit by at least three snowflakes) ’tis me again, uncharacteristically soon after my last post, which, in good news for the both of us, will make this a much shorter write-up. it has been an eventful two weeks, mostly due to my

united states of america

happy 2024, you all! how are your new year’s resolutions going (if you made any to begin with)? mine are in full swing, as is to be expected when not even a week of the new year had passed.  it’s been a nice new year’s, which, especially after a turbulent year, was more than welcome.

myanmar

hello, ye hopefully not holiday-stressed peeps what a year, eh? ups and downs and downs and ups and many places and also a lot of being in the same place physically, emotionally and metaphorically. but this is not a place for lamenting (well, it can be, but somehow i’m not in a lamenty mood). amongst

togo

hello, my sweet summer fairies as i am writing this, somewhat overheated in an inexplicable 31 degrees celsius, i am filled with a sweet sense of late-summer melancholy, despite having been ready for autumn for a good month and a half now. this summer has been a bit of an odd one, if i’m being