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Lisbon, Portugal - Visited Portugal in mid July for the music festival Super Bock Super Rock located near the beach south of Lisbon. Highlights of the festival were Arcade Fire, Portishead, Tame Impala, and Junip.
After the festival I spent a few more days climbing the hills of Lisbon (the geography and layout of the city has much in common with San Francisco), eating fresh seafood, Portuguese cheese, and lots of Chorizo.
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Siracusa, Sicily, Italy - Visited Siracusa, Sicily for a long weekend of chilling on the beach, jumping off cliffs into the ocean, cooking up fresh fish from the markets, and wandering around the old city, all in 35C/95F+ temps.
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Helsinki, Finland - Visited Finland in mid June where I met up with my brother and four other friends I’ve studied with in Amsterdam. Our week in Finland consisted of exploring the city, eating reindeer meat, pub crawling, and then recovering with a daily sauna visit, including taking dips in the icy Baltic sea between sessions.
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La Joué du Loup, France - Traveled to the French Alps with the 300 other international and Dutch students from the Netherlands for a week of snowboarding. While the snow conditions were not of Utah or Colorado caliber, they were certainly better than anything the East Coast has to offer.
Check out more pictures from the ski trip here…
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Malmo, Sweden - While staying in Copenhagen I made a short hop on the train for a day trip in Malmo; a city of twisty architecture and Swedish girls located on the western coast of Sweden.
Copenhagen, Denmark
After returning from traveling around Egypt and Turkey in January I had a few days to recover before setting off on a 15+ hour train ride from Amsterdam Centraal to Copenhagen, Denmark. My ticket was for originally for a regular seat, but upon arriving at the station my assigned train car was no where to be seen. After a few moments of confusion and frustration, I was reassigned to a sleeper train car with a couchette bed…quite an upgrade from a regular seat. While the train ride was long and a bit rough, seeing the sunrise over the water as we crossed from Germany into southern Denmark made it all worth it.
Copenhagen, like all Scandinavian cities, is extremely expensive. Hostels run close to $40 per night and a standard, cheap, street food runs about $10-15 per meal. Suffice to say I lived off a backpack of fruit, bread, and cheese. The city itself looks much like a more spread out, modern version of Amsterdam, but with the unique colors and architecture found only in Northern Europe. I also made a day trip across the straight to Malmo, Sweden, so expect to see a related post soon.
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Istanbul, Turkey
Before returning to Amsterdam from Cairo, I stopped in Turkey to explore Istanbul. Spent most of the time wandering around the city, walking along the coast on the Asian side, and eating more than a lifetime’s worth of donor kebabs. And there was also the time spent in a government funded hospital for a day on an IV due to food poisoning acquired during my last day in Cairo.
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