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Cape Town Is The Most Lekker

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South Africa is so lekker bru! I lived in Cape Town for my last month of Remote Year, and it was the perfect place to close out the unreal experience of living and traveling throughout five different continents in 2018. These are some of my lekker mates embracing lekker van culture What does "lekker" mean? Ah, good question. It's Afrikaans slang and I'd say the closest equivalent in the USA would be "awesome" or more recently "lit" (is lit dead in 2019? if so, please clue me in to it's replacement?). Anything can be lekker - people, places, events - and pretty much everything in Cape Town is lekker. As seen from the top of Table Mountain If you read my Marrakech post , you are aware that I was flat out exhausted coming into December. My travel adversity tolerance level was very low and my patience in general was nearly non-existent. Thankfully, Cape Town has SO many lekker features that could lift any person's spirits, even

Marrakech Broke Me

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It was bound to happen eventually. After 10+ months of international travel, despite the many *insert all of the positive adjectives* experiences I've had, the challenges that come along with the one-suitcase country-hopping lifestyle caught up with me. I started to feel the mental fraying at the end of October, in Croatia. Activities and sights that I normally would have gotten excited about (murder mystery party! ferrying to a tiny gorgeous island with my gfs! a storm flooding the whole Split coastline!) elicited little to no reaction from me. The most simple tasks seemed monumental and left me exhausted. I attributed my apathy and fatigue to my lack of connection with Croatia  where the cold, windy offseason was starting - I must be ready for a change of scenery / locale, right? So I channeled what energy I had into looking forward to the upcoming month in Morocco. I tried to pump myself up knowing going to Morocco meant I would get to try some fun new foods (what is tagi

Sea Ya On The Split Side

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title credit - Biz Split, Croatia: real or default desktop background? I truly felt I had to be dreaming when I arrived in Croatia. I had just spent three days in Munich celebrating Oktoberfest, which was arguably one of the best weekends of my life to date (been saying that a lot this year - will elaborate in a forthcoming post). somehow Oktoberfest was even better than I thought it would be In my haze of post beer-drinking-pretzel-eating exhaustion, I walked out of the Split airport into a gorgeous sunny day, and right there in front of me was the Adriatic Sea. *blink* *shake head* *blink again* ok it was still there, this was real life. and Croatia was even more beautiful than I thought it would be Let me back up for a sec: I don't have a bucket list written down, but I do have an ever evolving mental one, which includes visiting a bunch of places (the list keeps growing the more places I go), going to a lot of sports events (i.e. Wimbledon! a Super Bowl! a

September on Splavs

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Serbia is hands down the most random country on my travel itinerary this year. My boss told me he would rather go to prison than go to Serbia (LOL). I heard similar sentiments from most people about the country. The conversations would go something like this: Friend 1: "So where are you living next month?" Me: "Belgrade... it's in Serbia." Friend 1: *confused look* "Is Serbia the same as Siberia?" Friend 2: *equally confused look* "Who goes to Serbia? Isn't it really cold there?" To which I could only laugh in response because I knew just as much about Serbia as I did about Siberia (AKA absolutely nothing). But I was going there regardless so it was safe to say soon I would find out more. Let's set the record straight! Belgrade turned out to not only be better than prison (or how I imagine prison would be), but to be one of my favorite cities that I've lived in this year. That is to say- I found it very

The Prague Blague... see what I did there?

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I wanted to skip writing a post about Prague. My feelings about the city are complex, and potentially controversial (I didn't love it... eeeek), and part of me wanted to just put it behind me as I start living the Serbia life. But writing these posts about each month really has helped me process my experiences, and hopefully has given you (yes, you, all 4 of my blog readers out there!) some insight into the weird world of living in a different city/country every month. So let's talk about Prague. gets me every time Prague was one of the cities I was most excited to live in this year. Without knowing much about it, I had heard fantastic reviews from people who had lived there or visited, and I was vaguely aware that the city was steeped in history. My perception was of a magical historical fairyland. And in a lot of ways, that's exactly what Prague turned out to be. boats, castles, bridges... maaaaagic BUT a few outside factors came into play in August th