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I live in Denmark, I lived for a year in Slovenia, one semester in Spain and am currently residing for half a year in Lithuania. I travelled most countries in Europe and am now making my way to the neighbouring countries. I like to go a little further away from home on every trip than last time - this makes me feel that I have not suddently come to a completely unknown place but that I at least know the area or have a feeling of the region by having visited countries near by previously.

Summer 2005: To stand between two chapters of your life is more difficult than all the problems you might have in each chapter.
Many chapters are written in my lifebook and many times have I been standing with the knowledge that a new chapter would start.
But never before have I had a period so long in between with the knowledge of what wonderfull life I leave behind and with no knowledge of what will come. After my one year chapter as a volunteer in Slovenia is over I have one and a half month before my chapter as a university student will begin. In this month I will travel. Find myself outside the normality of a chapter. All alone, without my friends, my family and the surroundings I love.

Summer 2006: A new chapter begins as I am planning to move to Spain for a semester, but before settling in Madrid I will once again stand in between two chapters - leaving something behind and awaiting something new, while travelling la peninsula.

Summer 2008: My chapter as a bachelor student is about to end and I look towards a new chapter as a master student. But before I begin this chapter of my life, I will once again get on the road. This time brings me to the Caucasus. For one month will I be outside my own world, outside the chapters of my book.

2009: Once again will I leave behind Denmark. This time for an internship of six months in Vilnius, Lithuania. Work experience is what will be on the menu, but hopefully a bit of travelling will come in as desert.

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By zofka
May 25th 2009

Siauliai - busses and crosses Europe » Lithuania » Siauliai

crosses
the hill of crosses, lithuania

The hill of Crosses It is said that this saddle bag hill 12 km outside Siauliai was once a pagan alter. How this remote location, far from anything, came to be a holy place is unknown, but the legend describe it as such. Many centuries later it became the home to a cross or two, this is estimated to be around the 1830's, and today the saddle bag hill hosts hundreds of thousands of mainly wooden crosses placed there by pilgrims and a large part by especially Polish and German tourists. The crosses are mostly wooden and unfortunately many of them [View Full Entry]

By zofka
May 9th 2009

From Kaliningrad with love Europe » Russia » Northwest » Kaliningrad

in the oasis
Taking a rest from the city traffic.

I had been told that the old city of Königsberg was gone and that the present city of Kaliningrad was nothing to write home about. But I have decided to write home anyhow. Kaliningrad is a fascinating place seeing that almost all the inhabitants are immigrants from Mother Russia. This old Preussian stronghold which fostered people such as Immanuel Kant, is today a Russian exclave in the center of Europe and enclosed by EU and NATO countries. Here in between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea, everything is in cyrillic, people speak nothing but Russian and the reminder of grotesk Soviet [View Full Entry]

By zofka
April 3rd 2009

Favorite Vilnius Europe » Lithuania » Vilnius

statues on the greenbridge
old soviet statues on the green bridge

This year Lithuania celebrates the 1000 year anniversary for the mentioning of its name. The first time Lithuania was mentioned was in 1009 in the Saxonicae Annales Quedlinburgenses, where apparently a Saxon missionary named Bruno of Querfurt was struck in the head after trying to baptise the people living in Lithuania. The year of 2009 is therefore perfect for Lithuanian capital Vilnius to be the European Cultural Capital, though this has not been a success story until now. One might actually draw comparisons between the old and bloody recordings of Saint Bruno and the rather scandalous b [View Full Entry]

By zofka
March 31st 2009

BURN!!! Europe » Lithuania » Vilnius

Smoky dustbin
Gedimino, Vilnius, Lithuania

Do you know the supposedly American expression of "a good burn", often used by the character Michael Kelso in "That 70's show"? Well in Lithuania they really like a good burn. Having lived in Vilnius for a little more than two months, I have become quite accustumed to the Lithuanian version of a good burn. I live in an apartment block between Neris and the old town, and in the driveway into the yard we previously had several large plastic containers for garbage use. But one morning coming down the stairs, my colleague and I noticed that the containers were no [View Full Entry]

By zofka
March 24th 2009

There is something about Vilnius Europe » Lithuania » Vilnius

Friends of Frank Zappa
graffiti near the statue of Frank Zappa, Vilnius

It is freezing, and I constantly feel a bit ill and with a throbbing in my throat. It has been snowy white for long periods through February while ice flakes have made their way down the Neris River, which floats by my house. March is more optimistic and the sun shines through, but it is still a while I am sure until I can enjoy the spring in the Lithuanian capital. I have resided in Vilnius for two months now, and start to get the feel of the city. It is a very vibrant city though winter tends to have a [View Full Entry]

By zofka
July 24th 2008

Kazbegi - no words to describe Asia » Georgia » Khevi » Kazbegi

View of Tsminda Sameba
Taken from the path towards the Glacier

The old man tries to speak to me in Russian. I try to respond. My few Slovene glosescome in handy now. He asks me where I am from. I answer Daniya. He says something about Daniya and gori. I laugh and make the motion of flat. He gives up and leaves me be. I am left with my own thoughts. I sit quietly and rest while looking down upon the village of Kazbegi. I sit at Tsminda Sameba, the church that represents Georgia in every tourist brochure. Mt Kazbeg is on the West site of the church and the village at [View Full Entry]

By zofka
July 16th 2008

A Baku celebrity Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

The beach
At the shore of the Caspian Sea

15 minutes of fame I chose to buy two large sunglasses today, so that I can really look like a celebrity! The reason is that we have been quite a lot in AZTV. Firstly, we appeared at a pressconference, where all of us had to tell why we had chosen Azerbaijan and how we liked it so far! Later on, a tv crew came to our language course to film us while having class, and afterwards I was chosen for an interview. Some of the other participants have been interviewed for the radio or been at the live morning show on [View Full Entry]

By zofka
July 14th 2008

Ganja - Going rural Asia » Azerbaijan

Refugee village near Ganja

Today was the first day we got out of Baku for real, and got to see something different from the buildingboom of the metropol. Our destination was Ganja, the second largest city in Azerbaijan and situated approximately 320 km to the east of Baku. I had previous to my travel heard that the pictures of the present president as well as his father, the former president, are hanging everywhere. I had not seen much of this in Baku and quite thought that people had been exagurating the number of pictures hanging around. But here in Ganja, they hang on every corner, [View Full Entry]

Wonder if anyone mind if we take a picture

By zofka
July 13th 2008

Baku - culturechok Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

View over the oilfields
taken from Ramana fortress

So here is my first update from Azerbaijan. I am at the moment participating in an AEGEE-summer university in Baku, learning the Azeri language, which is related to Turkish. We are approx 13 participants and just as many organizers from the universities in Baku. So let's begin Baku, where east meets west. Where Islam co-exist with capitalism. And where Ladas and Mercedes fill the street A chok of culture for a Danish girl! Much is differet here. - both of good and bad! The first thing I noticed as I arrived in Baku was the noise. The streets are full of [View Full Entry]

By zofka
July 6th 2008

First taste of the Baltic - Riga Europe » Latvia » Riga Region » Riga

View of Riga
View from Skt. ·Peters Church

Since I've subscribed a whole lot of you marvellous people back home to my blog, I have to be extra good at writing interesting stuff. So lets start with what I am best at - complaining Copenhagen Airport: Usually one of my all time favorite places. The atmosphere of people going away on holiday, bustling around in long lines while chatting about things to do at their destination point and of people arriving, being welcomed with (perhaps too many) Danish flags and kisses and hugs. But today I didn't like it. As CPH becomes larger and as more and more companies [View Full Entry]

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