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How I Became A Citizen Of The World

Posted on2020-05-302020-06-10AuthorRenata19 Comments

How did I become a Citizen of the World? Why do I have these itchy feet? Where does this greed for exploring come from? Why this fascination with foreign customs’n’cultures? Was there a specific moment? Or did I get injected this yearning for travel in homeopathic doses?

Renata Green on the Beach in Split, Croati — For the first time on Croatian beaches.

I’ve put together five anecdotes about my earliest – and most impressive – travel memories that might explain a thing or two.

It’s really amazing what my brain remembers, how these trips sank in and anchored in my mind and soul.

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Coming to America: From Northern Germany to the “New World”

Posted on2020-05-232020-05-27AuthorRenata Green52 Comments

In the 19th and 20th century, millions of people were coming to America. They left Europe via the North German ports in search of a better life in the “New World”, mostly the USA.

sculpture called Die Auswanderer, emigrants, on emigrants coming to America — This sculpture called Die Auswanderer, emigrants, is standing on the shore of the river Weser. It remembers the seven million passing through the port of Bremerhaven. Actually, this statue by Frank Varga was donated by the German-American Memorial Association.

As a counterpart to the arrival halls in Ellis Island, several museums in German cities remember the adventurous journeys of the emigrants in transit.

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The Ski Instructor of Sri Lanka

Posted on2020-01-132020-05-28AuthorRenata Green17 Comments

I’m often asked how it is to travel by myself. If I’m not scared. If I don’t get lonely. If I’m not afraid that the sky may fall on my head tomorrow.

A Ski Instructor by himself in a snowy landscape — No, Sri Lanka looks nothing like this. Definitely not.
(Photo: Sondrekv, Påske, detail, cropped to 2:3, , CC0 1.0)

The answer has always been no – and meeting Sri Lanka’s only ski instructor was clearly another proof that travelling solo is a great chance to come across people that open up to you in a blink of an eye.

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most instagrammable – till death do us part

Posted on2020-01-032020-05-28AuthorRenata Green24 Comments

I love good photography. That’s why I hate Instagram.

mural of a guy taking an instagrammable picture with death — You’d be surprised on how many pictures death is present – even though not always visible.

It deteriorates the art of photography and makes the world a dangerous – and endangered – place. Till death do us part.

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Language Learning in Rome

Posted on2019-05-262020-05-30AuthorRenata GreenLeave a comment

I love to learn foreign languages; and travelling is my passion. Therefore, I joined a couple of courses abroad. For two weeks, I was learning Italian in Rome – and I’m telling you here how that went.

Sculptured heads at the Musei Capitolini in Rome — Learning is Fun: Joining all these shrewd heads in Rome.

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Language Learning in Izmir

Posted on2019-05-222020-06-23AuthorRenata Green23 Comments

Since my two weeks of educational vacation in Rome were of such a great personal gain, two years later it was time to go back on the language horse. After many hours in front of the computer screen talking in rudimentary Turkish to a learning program, I decided to give Izmir a shot.

byemyselftravels — Nestled between palm trees and lamp posts: Izmir proudly presents the Saat Kulesi – its major tourist attraction.

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Language Learning in Milan

Posted on2019-05-202020-05-31AuthorRenata GreenLeave a comment

Learning Italian in Milan – when taking a language course in the country of origin, you obviously learn much more than just the local tongue.

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cheesy flight

Posted on2019-05-092020-05-29AuthorRenata GreenLeave a comment

Safety first! D’accord, mes amis.

A platter of hard cheese that is no problem on a flight. Only soft cheese might qualify as liquid — Not every cheese is prone to be a terror weapon. These are the pacific types.

But when cheese is considered a terror weapon, things do get slightly out of hands.

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a huge travel mishap – or: my claim to be a rock star

Posted on2019-03-262020-05-29AuthorRenata GreenLeave a comment

Rock stars are known for throwing large appliances out of the window. Well, although I never claimed to be a rock star, a little mishap that happened to me in New York qualified for being one.

A couple of aircons illustrating the post on my claim to be a rock star which deals with a huge travel mishap — This is not what the air conditioner looked like after my little mishap.
(Photo: Ildar Sagdejev (Specious), 2008-07-11 Air conditioners at UNC-CH, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Getting a Hair Cut Around the World

Posted on2018-10-312020-05-30AuthorRenata GreenLeave a comment

There is a hairdresser’s chair standing in my nook of the internet. As a travel blogger, I’m getting a hair cut in basically every country I visit in the world.

Hairdresser chair at Salon Correo in Havana, 7 Teniente Rey, La Habana, Cuba — Hairdresser chair at Salon Correo in Havana

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