Home is Where the Hygge is: Copenhagen

Denmark. Ahh, my soul country! I could not wait for Denmark. It was among the top 3 countries we were venturing to. I read the “Little Book of Hygge” and “Lykke” years ago and was fascinated with the Danish culture and way of life: quiet, slow-paced, present and connected—the opposite of my ADHD personality. So here we were in the Danish capital, Copenhagen and it lived up to my expectations. First off, it is hard to believe that 1.4 million...

Residence

You don’t know how much of an impact your place of residence, even if temporary has on you, your feelings, emotions and well-being. We have stayed in several Airbnb, hotels and homes away from home long before this adventure, but the one difference was, that we had a home to go back to. Not having a home with all the comforts it provides, is unsettling. We miss our beds, pillows and blankets, our rooms of retreat and quiet we each...

London: London Eye

We got to London on a train. The train ride was 2 hours. It wasn’t long but it was boring. The whole train ride I played this game called Baseball9 and Block Blast. When we got to London on the intercom they said “Someone got hit by a train today.”  I was shocked when I heard that. When we got outside we took an underground train to our Airbnb. We were lucky that the underground train station was right beside...

London, England, UK: Theatreland

London was great! we were there for 4 days. All the days were great. I enjoyed the eye, attending musicals and all their little shops. we go to London on a train. it was a pretty easy train, but I did not feel good. It was 2 hours so not bad at all. Once we got to London we went to our apartment. At first, I didn’t like the apartment and location but it was perfectly fine. It was not...

London, the NY of the UK

London. A city where everyone has a preconceived idea of what it is: larger than life, the central point of modern-day societies (literally Greenwich borough is longitude zero) and the significance, good and bad that surrounds it. Music, movies and media all propel this fantasy of London, England or “The Big Smoke” (a legal fog caused by coal burning).  While London is an interesting city, it is just another city to me that makes me claustrophobic. Seeing Big Ben, Parliament...