m49erfan's Travel Blogs, Travel Reviews, Travel Profile

English, Spanish, learning Danish to please my husband, secretly taking an online French course (I'm sort of good!).

My first trip to Rome with the person who is now my husband. It was our first vacation together and we spent 4 days exploring, eating, drinking wine, laughing and talking. It's still one of my best trips ever.

I have been traveling almost my whole life, but my first real travel experience was to London from California when I was 16 years old. Until Fall, 2005, I had been back to Europe a couple times to Spain and Greece, but I mostly stayed in the U.S. going on cross-country trips to Florida or hopping on a plane to Hawaii. Then in August 2005, I packed up my most important belongings and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to study International Human Rights Law for 4 months. I basically never left. Okay, well I did return to San Francisco to finish up law school and then I carried out my promise to myself to live in my father's home country, Mexico, to learn Spanish and meet my relatives. But in December of 2006, I moved back to Copenhagen to be with a Dane whom I had met during my study abroad experience. Having endured a year and a half living 6000 miles apart, we have been to numerous places around the globe. Since I've been back in Copenhagen, we've had a few more excursions around Europe. That's what I love about living here. You can get on a plane or train and be in a completely different country. So this travel blog is filled with only trips we've taken this year. It doesn't include our adventures in San Francisco, our escapades in Guanajuato, or my solo trips around Europe from my 2005 experience. Those will have to remain my personal memory.
Now that I'm officially in an international relationship and living in a country that I was not born in, I have had the fortunate opportunity to meet so many people from different cultures. I have to say my favorite people are Canadians, but I love meeting people from Latin America to practice Spanish. Europeans are amazing in their diversity, openness, and sophistication. And there is nothing like meeting an American in a foreign country who understands that no matter how cool the rest of the world is, there is nothing like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while watching Seinfeld.