Next Saturday Will and I will temporarily move to Croatia. We’ve booked an Airbnb for a month in Split and are beyond excited. Why? Because this will be our first month as digital nomads! We finally managed to get everything sorted and are now becoming location-independent. The plan is to slowly move from Croatia to […]
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From Wengen to the Männlichen Panorama Trail

Hiking up the Männlichen from Wengen and then walking the epic Männlichen panorama trail is an incredible experience and doesn’t have to cost much money if you do it right! I’m lucky enough to ‘own’ (ok, it’s my family’s, but shhh, let me feel fancy!) a chalet in Wengen. I’ve spent literally every summer here […]
ESL Job from Hell: Why I hated teaching English in Spain

To many, teaching English in Spain sounds like a dream come true. While I may have been less excited than your average first time ESL teacher (after all, I have taught in Switzerland, Thailand and China before), I was nonetheless looking forward to our year teaching English in Spain. However, things didn’t really work out […]
Learn Chinese with me: Goals, methods and resources

It’s not as difficult as you think to learn Chinese! In this post I will share my reasons for choosing to learn Chinese, how I will try to become fluent, as well as some of my favorite resources for Chinese language learning (so far). While I absolutely love language learning, I’m also very impulsive and […]
Hitchhiking from Europe to Thailand

Table of contents The route From Russia to China From China to Laos From Laos to Thailand Within Thailand My experience Advice and cost breakdown General long-distance hitchhiking advice Language barrier Hitchhiking advice for Russia Hitchhiking advice for China Cost breakdown In January 2014 an idea popped into my head. I had been staying […]
Vegan Food in Phnom Penh

As you probably know, we recently spent 4 days in Phnom Penh as part of a visa run. Despite doing university work, the one thing we did was…EAT. To our surprise, we found amazing vegan food in Phnom Penh. **This post was imported from my old blog and was originally published in 2015** 1. Fruits […]