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Category Archives: Nomad Notes

Fernweh & Heimweh in the time of corona

Featuredby Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

Fernweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for far-away places. Heimweh (German noun) — a feeling of longing for home; homesickness. This pandemic takes from us in so many […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes, Seattle Nomad
"Mackie Mixer," 107.7 The End, circa 2011

On radio addiction, music for wanderers and #resisting in Berlin

Featuredby Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

Like loving the outdoors, live music and the ritual of brewing a pourover coffee, my involvement with radio isn’t something I found at random in adult life. More like: It […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad News, Nomad Notes
I'm With Her at Silent Green, Berlin

I’m With Her: Paeans of the wandering soul

Featuredby Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

Folk-bluegrass supergroup I’m With Her are playing their first show in Berlin, and they’ve already discovered the nude sunbathers in Tiergarten. That feeling, lying around hedonistically under the trees, is […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes
Coast hike to Muir Beach

On the value of going solo

Featuredby Caitlin Hardee 1 Comment

“Go simple, go solo, go now.” The mantra of the late, great paddling legend Audrey Sutherland is solid advice in all kinds of situations, whether gathering your guts for an […]

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Nomad Notes
Winter kayak on the Spree, Berlin

Berlin by boat, or how I learned to stop renting and love the inflatable kayak

December 10, 2017by Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

The oldest of the three Santa-suit-clad stand up paddlers squints his eyes against the falling snow and eyes my inflatable kayak, bobbing at the foot of Molecule Man, with friendly […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes, Uncategorized
David Bowie, O'Keefe Center, Toronto, 1976. Copyright: Jean-Luc Ourlin. flickr.com/photos/jlacpo/7085740 - CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Edited.

Elegy for the Starman: Goodbye to Bowie

January 12, 2016by Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

On average, over 150,000 human beings die each day. But on January 10th, one of those people was David Bowie, and such was the creative brilliance of this artist, that […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad News, Nomad Notes

#Heimkommen: Expat holidays & sobbing over supermarket ads

December 1, 2015by Caitlin Hardee 1 Comment

Once again, it’s December in Berlin – the month in which snow falls and Christmas markets spring up like mushrooms, the scent of Glühwein wafting from every corner store. A […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad News, Nomad Notes
Latte. Photo rights: Caitlin Hardee

Coffee with Leon

July 12, 2015by Caitlin Hardee 1 Comment

In which my Resting Bitch Face slips and a would-be smooth talker ends up telling me his life story. Sometimes, all you can do is listen.

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes
Cherry blossoms in Ulsan, South Korea. Copyright: Haeryun Kang

Spring in Ulsan

April 28, 2014by Haeryun Kang Leave a comment

It has been a sad spring for everyone. Now summer is almost here; the days are getting hotter, and it’s raining today in Ulsan. (Rain always reminds me of summer. […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes
South Korean newspapers cover the Sewol ferry tragedy. Photo: Hae Ryun Kang

Rest in peace, Sewol

April 22, 2014by Haeryun Kang 1 Comment

South Korea is on edge. A government official has been sacked for initiating an employee group picture at the port where the Sewol victims’ parents were waiting. A politician has been demonized […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad News, Nomad Notes
Cappuccino in Thessaloniki, Greece. Copyright: Caitlin Hardee, Nomad News.

Coffee quest to the cradle of civilization

April 12, 2014by Caitlin Hardee 1 Comment

Thessaloniki. City on the sea, crowned with crumbling ruins, ancient ramparts looking out to the Aegean. On my extended weekend here in late March, I left planning and organization behind […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Espresso, Nomad Notes
Birdy plays Berlin's Astra Kulturhaus

Birdy captures Berlin with soaring vocals

March 8, 2014by Caitlin Hardee 2 Comments

Thursday, Feb. 27, 8:35 p.m., Berlin’s Astra Kulturhaus. Billy Lockett’s soft, earnest vocals drift in a cloud of smoke out the open venue door, as I huddle in the entry […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes

Handemy: An alternative agricultural village?

April 30, 2013by Haeryun Kang Leave a comment

Danyang is a town of 30,000 people in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. In front of the Danyang Bus Terminal, there is a big red bridge across a big river. […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes

Wicked haahsh realities: Conquering Boston & the ‘real world’

March 7, 2013by Holly 2 Comments

Before I left for a semester abroad in Bonn, Germany my junior year of college, I learned about culture shock. In a mandatory pre-trip orientation, a zany, somewhat obnoxious staff […]

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Boston Nomad, Nomad Notes

Handemy WWOOFs in Australia

January 27, 2013by Haeryun Kang Leave a comment

WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming) means you get free housing and food in return for your labor at a host farm. It started in the 1970s in Scotland, […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes

Winter in Berlin

January 23, 2013by Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

A year has passed since my nostalgic days in exile, grumping around my college campus while longing for the knifelike cold of a Berlin winter. The appeal is hard to […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes
Peter Fox in Berlin. Courtesy of Peter Fox, Pressefotos. https://www.facebook.com/42592738173/photos/a.42592958173.56013.42592738173/175707023173/

An American’s Intro to German Music

December 5, 2012by LW Richardson 2 Comments

When Nomad News‘ Caitlin Hardee and I first met, we discovered that we had something unusual in common. At our respective college radio stations, we each produced and hosted a weekly […]

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New York Nomad, Nomad Notes

A non-Kpop guide to Korean music

December 5, 2012by Haeryun Kang 1 Comment

Hi guys. Here are some cool sounds from South Korea. They’re no “Gangnam Style,” which I’m sick of anyway, but I like them and I hope you like them too. […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes

Anyeonghaseyo from Incheon!

November 30, 2012by Katie Welch 1 Comment

A few months into my new life in South Korea, this is my first Nomad dispatch. I’ve been living here in Incheon since the beginning of September. I came here […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes

Kimchi Festival in Handemy Village

November 27, 2012by Haeryun Kang 1 Comment

Koreans like kimchi. There’s cabbage kimchi, cucumber kimchi, radish kimchi; kimchi can be seasoned with apricot, fish, shrimp; there’s kimchi stew, kimchi pancake, kimchi burger, “Shinkimchi” (kimchi that has been […]

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Korean Nomad, Nomad Notes

When wanderlust clashes with travel advisories…

October 12, 2012by Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

I have a serious problem watching movies all the way through. Blame it on the insidious influence of Twitter and constant Internet exposure on our brains, insatiable hunger for trivial […]

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Nomad News, Nomad Notes
Aufenthaltstitel

Freelancing in Berlin

October 2, 2012by Caitlin Hardee 1 Comment

I received some excellent news on Friday, Sept. 28—a mere two days before my last written departure deadline, word came through from the Ausländerbehörde that my application for a visa […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes

Upstate New York To Upstate Manhattan

September 8, 2012by LW Richardson 1 Comment

Is it worth it? That’s the question everyone seems to be asking about The New York Move, which, if you’re a twenty-something college graduate from somewhere in the Northeast, is […]

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New York Nomad, Nomad Notes

Leaves on the wind…

September 5, 2012by Caitlin Hardee Leave a comment

Another blog, another beginning. I intend to maintain Midnight Monsoon and Nomad Musik as part of my portfolio, but each corresponds to a phase in my life and writing that […]

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Berlin Nomad, Nomad Notes

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