Category Archives: Travel

Breaking News

By serene | Published: November 21, 2008

SERENE SURVIVES FIRST DANISH SNOWSTORM She will now retire to her bed to cuddle with pillows (audience: BOO) and watch some downloaded 30 Rock (audience: YAY). And this concludes your news update.

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Sverige

By serene | Published: November 13, 2008

I’m off to spend the weekend in Göteborg, Sweden. To celebrate the great country to the north and what some (*ahem*Timm*ahem*) may call my first foray into REAL SCANDINAVIA AND NOT THE FAUX-EUROPEAN VERSION, I present to you First Aid Kit, a super cute Swedish band (on The Knife’s Rabid Records label for the music [...]

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5:30 am, November 5th

By serene | Published: November 6, 2008

I’ll always remember where I was at 5:30 am on the morning of November 5th. I was sitting on a slightly damp, very stinky couch that is like every other couch found in college dorms across the world. And on this couch, surrounded by other American study abroad students at this University located in the [...]

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Gone Wild: Deutschland edition

By serene | Published: October 20, 2008

Oh Berlin, you had me at your first confusing guten tag. The affair began at Tegel, where no one seemed to care that two Americans landed in Germany from Denmark, because as I tried to show passport control people my passport they just waved us away when confirming we just came in from Copenhagen. After [...]

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Photo-list

By serene | Published: September 29, 2008

…because I’m feeling exceptionally lazy. I’m such a bad blogger. I blame it on the awesome Danish honey. I guess this makes me kind of like Winnie the Pooh. That makes me smile. So, without further adieu, things I have been up to: 1. Riding trains 2. Walking around neighborhoods 3. Taking photos of friends [...]

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Missing home

By serene | Published: September 12, 2008

Life is settling a little more every day. I’ve settled into routine, which involves Skype, instant coffee, KEXP online, and looking out at the gray sky and being reminded of home. I was warned that when the initial charge of being abroad for a long while settles, a pretty wicked case of homesickness will take [...]

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One week

By serene | Published: August 20, 2008

What a difference one week makes… This time last week I was consumed with thoughts of the upcoming weekend. He Who Makes My Heart Beat Faster was swooping in to rescue me from nights filled with longing and dreaming and wanting. My normal secretive self couldn’t contain the excitement and soon enough I had my [...]

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Guess where I’d rather be today…

By serene | Published: October 30, 2007

In the process of clearing off my memory card for Halloween festivities tomorrow, I came across more Maui photos that provided a great source of escapism. I also found a photo that Dylan took of me which captures a moment I enjoyed immensely: napping on the warm rocks as the sun set at Kalama Park.

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Tropical highs, mellow rains

By serene | Published: October 19, 2007

With nothing left of my Maui trip except peeling skin and sand cascading out of the laundry that still needs to be done, my memories are the only thing keeping me warm on these chilly Seattle nights. First impression getting off the plane? “Goddamn, it’s fucking hot here!” That, and the airport smelled of dirt. [...]

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