Post Mortren

Category: Travel

  • DMZ. Between North and South Korea

    DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone. It’s a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north, splitting it almost in half. The zone’s role is to limit physical and visual contact between both Koreas, preventing incidents and provocations. Despite its name, this narrow (4km wide) zone contains the most militarized space…

  • I spoke too soon… Travelling with a broken wrist

    In my last post, just a week before my departure from Japan, I wrote how I had never been sick or gone to the clinic during a whole year abroad. Little did I know… What happened? Just three days after that post, I went on a goodbye meet-up with my friend and his girlfriend. We…

  • Working Holiday in Japan: Retrospection

    Before going on a year-long Working Holiday, I made a post with my predictions about this year. Now, just one week before my visa expires, time to compare them with reality. I think I will miss… (food edition) What I wrote one year ago: I was never a fan of Polish cuisine, so I don’t…

  • Gaming while travelling light

    I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with an iPad, a camera, and a Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing a Switch with me would be great; yes, I contemplated that. But I wouldn’t feel comfortable travelling with yet another expensive thing on myself. Sure,…

  • Nagano – 3 months in the middle of nowhere

    I spent my entire winter in Madarao, Nagano prefecture. I managed to get a job from Workaway in a really nice lodge with a nearly 10 rating on booking dot com (yup, rich people retreat!). It was supposed to be the most chill time during my stay in Japan – because I felt that traveling…

  • One year, one backpack

    I decided to pack for a year in one backpack and one small daypack. After over half a year abroad and experiencing everything from hot and humid summer to knee-deep snow, I can say that it works pretty well! The key to packing for a year in one backpack is to pack for one week……

  • Sendai – adventures with horses and… guiding kids for a TV show?

    I’ve been in Sendai for almost 2 months – working for accommodation in a KIKO hostel (sending big hugs to all the people I met and worked with in that place!). The hostel was known for its “global meets local” slogan and, as I quickly learned, it lived up to its name, hosting various cultural…

  • My Tokyo Highlights

    I started my Working Holiday in Tokyo. I decided to stay there for almost 3 whole months (from the beginning of August to the end of October), wanting to explore it to the absolute maximum. So, what were my highlights from that stay (in no particular order)? 1. Explored free museums In the insects’ museum,…

  • Weird reality of a creative on a long trip

    Hello there, or even konnichiwa, as I am currently on a Working Holiday in Japan! It’s been exactly 5 months – whoa, time flies. Yes, I might have neglected my blog for a bit, but hey. Can you blame me? So far, it’s been exciting and amazing. I went from walking crazy distances in a 35oC…

  • So… I’m going on a Working Holiday

    Time to go to Japan. Again. I can eat the same thing for weeks. Every day, I’ll be more than happy to dig into My Current Fav Snack and devour it. Until, after some time, it stops tasting good. “I’ll never find a Snack this good again,” I think, but later I am proven wrong…