I wrote an essay about how living abroad “messes you up.” Want to know what I meant by that?
I wrote an essay about how living abroad “messes you up.” Want to know what I meant by that?
I love #biking and #exploring new neighborhoods each time I visit #Copenhagen and this time was no different. What a lovely city!
http://www.kuovad.is/blog/2025-07-06-copenhagen
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Poor old Google algorithm gets so confused about my travel writing researches. No thank you, I am not in the market for a French canal cruise (though I may have researched something about it).
Fourth of July weekend I head to #Copenhagen to see a friend. She takes me on a road trip to the north ending with an American BBQ in #Sweden
https://www.kuovad.is/blog/2025-07-04-denmark-sweden
#photography #travel #travelphotography #travelwriting #travelstories #leica #wanderlust #traveldiaries #explore #adventure #exploretheworld #journey
My latest blog post!!
Wandering in Haridwar
https://www.rajivchopra.in/p/wandering-in-haridwar
I have not been to Haridwar in a decade. But hey, memories don't always die!
Read the post! Comment, like, share, and subscribe to my Substack publication!
With a dinner reservation at #Maaemo in the evening, I spend the afternoon working up an appetite walking around waterfront.
https://www.kuovad.is/blog/2025-06-28-oslo
#photography #travel #travelphotography #travelwriting #travelstories #leica #wanderlust #traveldiaries #explore #adventure #exploretheworld #journey #oslo #norway
And what those posts were really about was putting off the moment where I have to do this – put details of all my New Zealand receipts into a spreadsheet, then stick them into an envelope for my filing cabinet. Done now!
The other thing I have to do on return, is place all the documents I've collected from the completed trip in a cardboard wallet like this. There's a whole row of these from past trips on the top shelf of one of my bookshelves, looking a bit battered.
Doing "published story" admin, now I'm back from NZ. Since I started travel writing in 2004 I've cut out copies of my print articles in plastic sleeves like this (not sure why really, other than as souvenirs):