sateless suitcase https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/ An Art Historian, a Journey, and a Suitcase Tue, 31 May 2022 10:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 51723428 Things to Do in Aarhus, Denmark (in Winter!) https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2022/01/things-to-do-aarhus-winter/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2022/01/things-to-do-aarhus-winter/#respond Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:34:27 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12661 After a trip to Copenhagen back in 2016 (that I only briefly wrote about), I had been dreaming about returning to Denmark: The country's capital blew me away with the quality of its food, coffee, and beer. And it's obviously super photogenic! Naturally, I had very high expectations for Denmark's second biggest city, Aarhus. And [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2021/12/life-snippets-of-2019/feed/ 0 12579 That Paris Feeling https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2020/10/that-paris-feeling/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2020/10/that-paris-feeling/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:30:41 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12600 It seems so surreal now, but in February 2020 I traveled to Paris: An extended weekend getaway to one of my favorite cities with my mom and sister. From a Central European perspective, the pandemic was just around the corner in mid-February, yet still seemed too far away back then. My sister wanted to do [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2020/10/that-paris-feeling/feed/ 4 12600 Life Snippets of 2019: The Before, the C-Word, the After https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/09/life-snippets-2019-the-c-word/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/09/life-snippets-2019-the-c-word/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2019 05:48:59 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12342 I was sitting outside the doctor's office waiting for my husband who had an appointment upstairs. It was an unusually warm February day and I had taken off my winter coat to soak in the early spring sun. Steffen was supposed to get some test results back. He had been having strange pains for a [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/09/life-snippets-2019-the-c-word/feed/ 7 12342 Life Snippets: The Second Half of 2018 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/07/life-snippets-the-second-half-of-2018/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/07/life-snippets-the-second-half-of-2018/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:05:45 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12169 Again, I'm more than several months behind with my biannual life update. You know very well that blogging hasn't been a priority in my life lately throughout the last years, although I certainly sometimes miss my regular writing routine. I've often felt bad for neglecting the audience I built with this blog. But to be [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/07/life-snippets-the-second-half-of-2018/feed/ 2 12169 Five Amazing Day Hikes in Montenegro https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/06/day-hikes-in-montenegro/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/06/day-hikes-in-montenegro/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2019 06:30:56 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12177 Five years ago (when blogging was still a thing?) I probably would have started this blog post lamenting about how I spent hours trying to find great hiking tips and trail recommendations for Montenegro. While it's quite easy to research Montenegro's beautiful coastline, Steffen (the husband) and I struggled a little finding suitable information on [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2019/06/day-hikes-in-montenegro/feed/ 2 12177 Life Snippets: The First Half of 2018 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/11/life-snippets-first-half-2018/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/11/life-snippets-first-half-2018/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:00:49 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=12067 I had always been hesitant when it came to answering the question "Why do you write a travel blog?", because the commonly used phrase in the blogosphere "I just want to inspire people to travel" never sounded like the right answer to me. Deep down I knew the reasons I originally started blogging were boredom, [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/11/life-snippets-first-half-2018/feed/ 4 12067 New Travel Adventures: Photographing a Destination Wedding in Croatia https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/photographing-destination-wedding-croatia/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/photographing-destination-wedding-croatia/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:47:31 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11875 It's funny how I thought travel photography was my calling when I started this blog over six years ago. As it turned out though: I'm actually a terrible travel photographer. Because I really don't like shooting landscapes. When you look at my blog content from the last years, it's easy to notice how I constantly [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/photographing-destination-wedding-croatia/feed/ 2 11875 Five Times in Paris https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/five-times-in-paris/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/five-times-in-paris/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:42:16 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11878 In my teleological view of life, I have to be  I'm convinced I'm at the best I've been yet: I love looking back and connecting the dots that led me to where I'm now, to understand how I got here in the first place. It's fun to see how I changed over the last decade, and [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/09/five-times-in-paris/feed/ 2 11878 Life Snippets: The Second Half of 2017 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/04/life-snippets-2017-photography-2/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/04/life-snippets-2017-photography-2/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:26:50 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11804 Well, I've most definitely run out of good first blog post sentences to excuse my terrible habit of barely keeping up with the blog after almost-not-blogging for two years now. But as I explained in my last "life snippets" post: I still have so many photos lying around and it's just sad to not at [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2018/04/life-snippets-2017-photography-2/feed/ 2 11804 Your Iceland Road Trip: The Things You Really Need To Know https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/09/iceland-road-trip-things-you-need-to-know/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/09/iceland-road-trip-things-you-need-to-know/#comments Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:50:47 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11719 Even without having any immediate Iceland travel plans for the longest time, I had known the names of famous Icelandic waterfalls for years. It seems pretty impossible to go on social media these days without seeing a mysteriously foggy Iceland photo within the first three minutes. Thus I'll spare you the "land of fire and [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/09/iceland-road-trip-things-you-need-to-know/feed/ 6 11719 Life Snippets: The First Half of 2017 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/09/life-snippets-2017-photography/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/09/life-snippets-2017-photography/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:59:01 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11643 One thing I could never wrap my brain around when it comes to travel blogging -- and blogging in general actually -- is how narcissistic it is. Do people really like reading an abundance of first person pronouns? Does anyone really care for random selfies in front of famous buildings? And yet, while being extremely [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/07/riga-lativa-winter-photography/feed/ 4 11451 The Lasting Changes of 2016 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/the-lasting-changes-of-2016/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/the-lasting-changes-of-2016/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:10:17 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11387 2016 was the year this blog became shockingly quiet. I had been struggling with finding balance in-between working, traveling, blogging, and maintaining a social life ever since I started working back in 2013, but my struggles have gotten worse since. Maybe not actually worse, but my priorities shifted more and more as the years passed. I'm [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/the-lasting-changes-of-2016/feed/ 7 11387 My USA Road Trip in Numbers, Instagrams, and Snapchats https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/usa-road-trip-numbers-instagrams/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/usa-road-trip-numbers-instagrams/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:38:59 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11293 In the summer of 2016, I did the craziest two week road trip across the Southwestern USA with Steffen, my favorite travel partner in crime -- and although it already feels like a lifetime ago, I have so much to say and oh-so-many photos to show! We flew into San Francisco where we spent two full [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2017/02/usa-road-trip-numbers-instagrams/feed/ 7 11293 Photo Essay: The Best of Spring 2016 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/08/best-photos-spring-2016/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/08/best-photos-spring-2016/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2016 07:41:33 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11249 A while ago, I stumbled upon a quote saying something like "whenever you want to say that you don't have time, say you don't want to make it a priority instead". It may sound harsh, but it's shockingly true: You can always make time for things that are a priority. And yes, in the last months, [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/08/best-photos-spring-2016/feed/ 8 11249 Five Essential Things To Do in Venice https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/05/things-to-do-in-venice-italy/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/05/things-to-do-in-venice-italy/#comments Tue, 10 May 2016 20:45:06 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11185 I really thought I understood Italian cities by now. After my week-long art history field trip to Rome back in 2006, which was my first visit to Italy as a grown-up, I had returned to Italy's capital in 2014 for several days and then visited Florence last year. I can order food in basic Italian and [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/05/things-to-do-in-venice-italy/feed/ 8 11185 Photo Essay: The Best of February 2016 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/03/germany-photography-february-2016/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/03/germany-photography-february-2016/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:36:57 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11151 You know, I wouldn't even care if we had just skipped February altogether. Seriously, the month of February is just miserable in Central Europe -- and it's probably even worse in Northern Germany, because if the sun ever shows she does it in Southern Germany. Anyways, besides my best efforts and resolutions to stay positive, [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/03/germany-photography-february-2016/feed/ 5 11151 Photo Essay: The Best of January 2016 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/02/best-photos-january-2016/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/02/best-photos-january-2016/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:23:08 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11094 First of all, I didn't mean to skip my December round-up, but I was so busy with domestic travel and holiday events that I didn't find the time to write a single word. Then, January just swept over me in no time and December (and 2015 in general) already felt like it was such a long [...]

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]]> https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/02/best-photos-january-2016/feed/ 8 11094 A Lesson on Happiness from 2015 https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/01/a-lesson-on-happiness/ https://www.sateless-suitcase.com/2016/01/a-lesson-on-happiness/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:44:48 +0000 http://www.sateless-suitcase.com/?p=11016 Although the New Year is already a couple of weeks old, I'm still thinking about how I love the nostalgic last days of the old and first days of the New Year. As someone who over-thinks even the smallest words and gestures for decades, I'm glad it's justified to cling to memories from the past [...]

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