traveling – Page 9 – Katja Malmborg

recycled quotes

I don’t remember now where I found it, maybe my classmate Kate posted it in her Facebook feed. But I liked it so much, I copied it and saved the document on my desktop. Now, while going through the big number of notes and other random stuff that has ended up on my desktop lately,Continue reading “recycled quotes”

back at the farm

I spent a month here at the blueberry farm in Sebastopol three years ago. Some things have changed. There are new houses now. Food is prepared in a cook house, and we sleep in safari tents down by the big pond – the pond which is about twice as big now as what it wasContinue reading “back at the farm”

interlude: the best midsummer ever (June 2015)

I barely made it home from Burkina Faso and Ghana, before it was time for me to get on the road again, this time to celebrate midsummer with my master’s class in Leksand. It was the last thing we would do together as a class, before many of my classmates started scattering across the world,Continue reading “interlude: the best midsummer ever (June 2015)”

fruits in season (June 2015)

June is peak mango season in this part of the world. There were mangoes being sold everywhere. Huge truckloads being taken in from the villages to the market towns, here in Tekondogo in southern Burkina Faso. Being in season, the mangos were so cheap. You could get five or more mangoes for the equivalent ofContinue reading “fruits in season (June 2015)”

links across time (April 2015)

Kirke took this picture of Hanna and me in front of the Savior on the Spilled Blood Church in Saint Petersburg – but it wasn’t until I got home and started going through the travel photos that I realized that it’s almost an identical staging of a photo that my dad took of Hanna and meContinue reading “links across time (April 2015)”

the traveling three (April 9-12)

Now, it’s already been three weeks since we were in Saint Petersburg, but let me just conclude this belated report with some final remarks. The best thing about Saint Petersburg was that I was there with Kirke and Hanna. Hanna and I started first grade together. Kirke joined for second grade. That makes almost 20 andContinue reading “the traveling three (April 9-12)”

decadence and flair in Saint Petersburg (April 11th)

Somewhere in the middle of Nevsky Prospekt lies Jelisjevs, an exclusive delicacy store housed in this lavishly decorated yearly 20th century modern building. Maybe that was my favorite place in Saint Petersburg. Just so way over the top it was crazy. Selling all different kinds of delicacies, displayed in such an exquisite manner. I doubtContinue reading “decadence and flair in Saint Petersburg (April 11th)”

the heat of marble (April 10th)

But what I liked the most of all the art that we saw at the Hermitage was the neoclassical statue collection. I feel so stupid now, because I didn’t note the names of the sculptors of these marble pieces, but I was just so taken with them. It’s not like I’ve never seen marble statuesContinue reading “the heat of marble (April 10th)”

the Hermitage (April 10th)

The Hermitage is the set of buildings that Catherine the Great founded and let build during the second half of the 18th century to house her growing collection of art. Today, it’s one of the world’s largest art museums, filled with pieces ranging from sculptures from ancient Siberia to French impressionists. It is an impressiveContinue reading “the Hermitage (April 10th)”

spilled blood in Saint Petersburg (April 10th)

One of the most fascinating buildings that we saw in Saint Petersburg was the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. Just the name is extreme. It was finished in 1907, and the name comes from actual spilled blood. In 1881 tsar Alexander II was severely wounded on this spot and died, and the churchContinue reading “spilled blood in Saint Petersburg (April 10th)”