Fernweh

This is the journal for my travels – I thought it’d be a nice of way of sharing what goes on when I’m away from home with my family and friends (and whoever else happens to come across this).

I’m pretty much completely addicted to travelling – had to put those long uni breaks to a good use, didn’t I? *g* Now that I’ve graduated (with an MA in Social Anthropology and a graduate diploma in Human Resources), we’ll see how I can keep seeing the world… I love to travel alone – the freedom is wonderful and enables me to do whatever I bloody well please. *g*

During my studies I tried to go on a bigger vacation once a year – so far I’ve travelled Great Britain by interrail, Canada and the US by bus (four months after graduation, a dream come true), spent a month on the Isle of Man as an au-pair, explored Namibia with a jeep tour, and made a six week trip along the East Coast, again by Greyhound. In 2003 I spent six weeks in New Plymouth, New Zealand (a country I completely fell in love with) as part of my mandatory fieldwork for uni, and two weeks in Australia purely for vacationing. In 2004 I did a two week road trip through Scotland in summer with my friend Märrie, as well as a number of shorter vacations (for example Paris and Rome). In 2005 I did some smaller trips again, but also a bigger journey, to Singapore Japan, which has always fascinated me.

2006 was a quiet one, as I was busy writing my MA thesis – but after graduating with an MA in Social Anthropology, Media Studies in German Literature, I went to New Zealand for a year in October 2007, to do a Graduate Certificate in Commerce and spend more time in this beautiful country and also see more of Australia. If it wasn’t on the other side of the world, I would have stayed there for good! Now I’m back in Switzerland with my parents, but I will probably look for my first “real” job in the UK or Ireland – I love my home country, but I can’t really see myself living here at the moment.

I’ll write this journal in English so my friends from abroad can read it, too. (I love how many people from all over the place I know – from my trips, but also from playing online…)

Enjoy!

Update: After this blog was moved from site to site a lot of the photo links are broken. However, you can visit my Flickr gallery, where you’ll find a lot of my pictures.