a not-so-brief record of travel, food notes, & musings on monuments
Middle World Adventures is a collection of travel wanderings, food stories, and a space to share my exploration of memory studies and remembrance.
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KZ Hinzert Memorial: Trier, Germany
In March I visited the KZ Hinzert concentration camp (the “KZ” stands for Konzentrationslager, the German word for Nazi concentration camps from 1933-1945) near Trier, Germany, located close to the borders of Luxembourg and France. Operated from 1939-1945, a memorial was opened here in 2005. I first discovered KZ Hinzert when I toured the absolutely… Read more
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Moments of Remembering and Forgetting: Basel, Switzerland
This March I spent a day and a half exploring the lovely Swiss city of Basel. Less than a five hour ride by train, I spent my time exploring the city’s beautiful landscape, mueseums, and of particular interest to me, the colonial legacy within Basel. Mirroring my wandering through the city, this meandering post will… Read more
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2023 Year in Review: Favorite Books
Let’s chat about my favorite of 2023! I track my reading through Storygraph, an app I highly recommend not only for their stats information, but also a solid way to cut ties with Bezos’ Goodreads. My stats for 2023: – 154 books– 46,473 pages– 80% nonfiction / 20% fiction– Top Genres: Food and Drink, History–… Read more
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2023 Year in Review: Travel Journal
Hey there 2023. It’s always nice to pause between prepping cabbage rolls and stirring a vegan version of New Year’s Stew to reflect on the year. A year packed with new adventures, personal growth, and, of course faithfully upholding a few annual traditions — who has the time to stress over the uncontrollable when there… Read more
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“You Keep Silent Until the Grave or You End Up in the Grave”: Recsk National Memorial Park, Hungary
Alllll the way back in 2020, a friend and I decided to adventure through northeast Hungary to visit the lovely vacation town of Miskolc [sounds like “meesh-kolts” in English], before making our way to the gorgeous city of Eger [sounds like “ay-guh” in English] and of course the wine region known as the Valley of… Read more
ABOUT ME
Itinerant | Pochemuchka | Librarian
she / her
I have a lot of Leslie Knope tendencies. Studied political science | sustainable food & justice. I’m a dog mom to the terror duo of Porkchop Reptar and Arya Tonks. Forever an intentional wanderer and admirer of black coffee.
I like inappropriately fake eyelashes and podcasts of the documentary variety. I’m an advocate for building a more radically empathetic world.
Intersectional Feminist | Amateur Food Anthropologist | Sourdough Baking Enthusiast | Aspiring Memory Researcher
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