Hi! If we haven’t met before, I’m Zoe. I’m an Australian in my late 20s, but for the past four years I’ve been living in Turin, Italy, where I work as a physicist. Before that, I lived in Glasgow, Scotland for a year, and before that I was alternating between Perth, Australia and Florence, Italy semi-frequently. I first tried my hand at blogging back then, to share stories from my travels when I was moving around every few months — hence the title!

These days, I still write about visiting new places, but more about everyday life as an expat. A lot of my posts could probably start with “I sometimes think I understand my life, and then…”

While I’m not exactly a “travel blogger”, I do have a vague goal to write at least one post about each country I’ve visited… eventually… To keep me honest, here’s an alphabetical list of countries I have visited (“visted”=slept in at least 1 night). I’ve included some commentary.

• Australia (“home”?)
• Austria: Vienna. They have no kangaroos.
• Belgium: Brussels, Bouillon
• China: 22 hours in Beijing
• Croatia: Zagreb, Split/Trogir, Zadar
• England: Before you nationalists point out that not all of Britain is “England”, I have included Scotland and Wales as their own entries on this list and even written posts about them :-) (which is more than I’ve done for England, sorry English nationalists!)
• Estonia: Tallinn, Tartu
• Finland: In/around Helsinki
• France: Paris (cliche!), Nice, Grenoble, the Alps except on the french rather than the italian side
• Germany: Nuremberg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Tuebingen, Munich, Dusseldorf
• Hong Kong
• Italy: Living in Turin and travelling around
• Ireland: I feel cheeky including this because it was an overnight at an airport hotel in Dublin during an unexpected stop-over due to electrical problems on the plane. There was, however, an Irish dancing contest for teenagers being hosted at the same hotel so I will call it a cultural experience.
• Latvia: Riga
• Luxembourg
• Malaysia: A highschool Indonesian language class trip, and more recently a long layover in KL while travelling between Italy and Australia.
• New Zealand: a wonderful finshed-undergrad-studies, first-time-overseas-as-an-adult holiday. Must go back, no idea when.
• Norway: A weekend in Oslo
• Scotland: Glasgow (living for a year), Isle of Arran
• Singapore
• Slovenia: Lakes Bled and Bohinj, Velika Planina, a few waking hours in Ljubljana
• South Korea: Seoul
• Sweden: Stockholm
• Switzerland: Zurich
• Wales: spent a week driving around, I really should write about this soon! I made a post
• The US: Texas, Arizona, amtrak (trains are their own state, ok?), Colorado, New Orleans, San Francisco