Hello and welcome back to the Seoul Diaries! May is upon us and midterms are finally over (thank goodness). In today’s episode, I thought that I would talk about a few of my experiences traveling alone in Korea. With COVID still looming in the background and the semester becoming extremely hectic, I have not been…
Category: solo travel
How to Make Friends Abroad When Life’s Online PART TWO
Part One: https://finsupabroad.com/2021/03/01/how-to-make-friends-abroad-when-lifes-online/ As you read in Part One, I found it somewhat difficult to make new friends while studying abroad in Sydney, Australia. I attribute most of this difficulty to results of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on my experience, including the shift to working and going to school online from home. While…
How to Make Friends Abroad When Life’s Online PART ONE
An interesting situation occurred while I was studying abroad. While the COVID-19 pandemic is the obvious winner as the craziest thing to happen during this time, the other was a simple one that affected a great deal of people: being separated from friends. When I first came to Sydney, I was part of an affiliate…
Japan: One Final Look Back
My time in Japan has come to an end. It’s bittersweet: I’m ready to get back to the US and get to work since I now have my degree, but I’ve really enjoyed my time and how much I’ve grown as a person while abroad. I gained a ton of perspective about the world and…
Japan: You Can’t Do Tokyo In Just Three Days
My time in Japan has been winding down, so I decided to end my time in Japan with just a few days of relaxation and enjoyment by visiting Tokyo and Yokohama before heading home to the good ‘ole US of A. I even roped in one of my newfound friends from Ritsumeikan to come along…
An Accidental Side Trip to Taiwan
Funny story: I accidentally put myself on a trip to Taiwan over Christmas. It wasn’t exactly anything I expected to do, and it sure wasn’t cheap, but I’ll be darned if it wasn’t one of the most memorable experiences I had here during my study abroad. Here’s how it happened: students at Ritsumeikan University as…
England: The Amazing Month of June I
In the beginning of June, I visited London one last time, but for a solo trip! I booked an airbnb, a bus ticket, and went on my way. I stayed for a whole weekend to go see a concert at Wembley Stadium, originally a football stadium which can fit up to 90,000 people. The group…
Solo Travels in London
During my time abroad, I quickly learned that my favorite way to travel was solo. Don’t get me wrong, travelling with friends is awesome and you shouldn’t only travel alone. However, I really appreciated taking a little bit of time to focus on what I wanted. My last two trips to London were the best….
When a Man is Tired of London, He is Tired of Life
Studying in Reading has the amazing perk of being just an (inexpensive) 30 minute train ride into Paddington Station, a fact that I seem to never shut up about. There is so much to see and do in London that it blows my mind and it pains me to know that I won’t be able…
Austria: Weekend trip suggestions
Though charming and breathtakingly beautiful, Klagenfurt is a small city. In fact, the entire Bundesland (State) of Carinthia (Kärnten) has a population of about 500,000; 100,000 of which live in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. So, it’s only natural that you may want to, you know… go somewhere else. Luckily, there is a Flixbus stop here as…