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Language Learning in Rome

Posted on2019-05-262022-11-02AuthorRenata Green12 Comments

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 Milan

Posted on2019-05-202024-06-26AuthorRenata 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.

Class of Milan: my wonderful interesting, sophisticated, talented, and creative co-students and our sweet teacher Claudia.

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Cheesy Flight: Never Put Cream Cheese In Your Hand Luggage

Posted on2019-05-092024-05-05AuthorRenata Green10 Comments

Safety first! D’accord, mes amis. But when cheese in your hand luggage is considered a terror weapon, things do get slightly out of hand.

cheese hand luggage — Who would have thought that these little stinkers would pose a safety risk in air traffic?

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location location location – my adventurous accommodation choices

Posted on2019-05-062023-08-05AuthorRenata Green3 Comments

Location location location: This is a roundup of some of my adventurous accommodation choices. I’ve actually made them in search of the best price-performance ratio.

Road lined with trees, illustrating a location for adventurous accommodation — On the road in the *Deep South* of the USA.

After all, who doesn’t want to stay at a nice, comfortable hotel at an exceptionally low price?
I do!
However, very often, these accommodations are located in – euphemistically speaking – remote locations. The Spanish call it en el culo del diablo – in the devil’s butt.

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

Posted on2019-03-262022-11-01AuthorRenata Green9 Comments

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 Haircut Around the World

Posted on2018-10-312022-11-02AuthorRenata Green4 Comments

There is a hairdresser’s chair standing in my nook of the internet: As a travel blogger, I’m getting a haircut 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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take the U-train – how tina uebel travelled the landroute from hamburg to shanghai by herself

Posted on2017-09-042022-11-02AuthorRenata Green2 Comments

Ms Tina Uebel is telling her absolutely fascinating story about how she travelled from Hamburg on Germany’s West coast to Shanghai on China’s East coast. Yes, there are probably hundreds of people doing this every day. But do they do it by train? I don’t think so!

Women in Turkmenistan, a country Tina Uebel crossed on her way from Hamburg to Shanghai — Sweet encounters in Turkmenistan – proverbial and literally.
This Central Asian state was Tina’s fourth country on her route from Hamburg to Shanghai.
(Photo: David Stanley, www.flickr.com/people/davidstanleytravel/)

Also, we are not talking about the touristy, comfy Transsiberian here, the Titanic of trains. No, Tina Uebel took the ordinary trains – in total 19 of them! It took her seven weeks from Hamburg across Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia – in total eight countries! – all the way to Shanghai.

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