Copenhagen, Denmark
Comments from other travel bloggers in the aftermath of TBEX New York was a torrent of positivity. Great avenue to meet fellow travel bloggers! Educational workshops to ignite blog domination!
There I was a voyeur, reading the blog posts, witnessing newly formed friendships on Twitter. Jealous, but excited for my friends.
Rumors swirled that TBEX 2011 might be in Europe, then it was announced Vancouver is the chosen city. I hopped the bandwagon, eagerly offering to be tour guide to those friends who missed New York. After all, Vancouver was my recent home for 10 years.
Oh, that’s right – Vancouver WAS my home. Did I want to re-visit a place I struggled to leave?
When the TBEX 2011 pre-tickets sold out I pledged to wait for the general sale in September, but I wavered. Next June will probably pinpoint me somewhere in Asia. For me to fly that distance doesn’t make sense.
Then TBEX announced Europe 2010 from November 4 to 6. My oath to stick with Vancouver was further tested.
Vancouver is a beautiful city, a postcard of ocean, mountains, and a laid back attitude, but I left for a reason. To feed this global hunger of mine. To not hang a shingle on the past.
It feels existentially wrong to return right now. Copenhagen actually fits with my trip to London and would be a great cap before I tackle India.
My attempts to remain genuine in the world of travel may have just shattered, so to those I promised free tours, accept my humble apologies. I suppose in the end, every traveler needs to carve their own path, even against popular opinion.
Vancouver won’t be my TBEX experience, but if it’s yours, you will have the best time of your life. I promise.
Meanwhile, I’m reaching uncontained levels of excitement for Copenhagen. To not only engage other travel bloggers, but gather ideas. I can’t wait to see the panel of speakers, attend workshops. All in hopes that I can bring you more interesting, lively content.
It will be my first twirl in Europe, too! That’s celebration enough.
TBEX represents Travel Blogger Exchange, an online gathering place for travel bloggers to meet and share. Only 2 years old, a formal meet-up is organized yearly, among other events. For more information visit: www.travelblogexchange.com or read this interview with co-founder Kim Mance.
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@Rachel – Hello! I’m sure we will meet each other! Thanks for commenting. :)
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I found your blog seeking infos about TBEX Copenhagen cause I’m thinking about going, I’m from Italy, cool to see such excitement, hopefully I’ll meet you there!
@Heather on her travels – Wonderful, look forward to meeting!
@Laura – Come, come! We need strength in fantastic blog numbers, would be lovely to meet you!
@Claire (Travel Funny Travel Light) – Did you attend New York? Or plan on Vancouver? I hope to keep y’all updated for sure!
Yup, I’ll be there – hope to catch up with you then
Heather
Glad to see you’re going to TBEX Europe. I haven’t decided yet, but am leaning that way!
so cool! hope it is very productive for you. and i am sure you will be keeping up regularly updated on it!
@Benny the Irish polyglot – May I just say I adore your site?? I am a language loser and could use the help. Oh right, this comment was about TBEX. Yeah, you’ll make it one day. :)
@Adventurous Kate – Your friend’s wedding sounds uber important. You’ll catch the next ones as they come along!
@Keith – You’ll have a pleasant trip in Vancouver, don’t be that jealous. :)
@Erin – I honestly feel terrible about being so pushy/gleeful about Vancouver, then suddenly change my mind. I feel the same, but hopefully we meet somewhere along the way!
@Sarah – Aha! Booked my flight on Easyjet. $70.00 CDN. Whoo!
Drats! I knew there was going to be a Euro-TBEX, but in November? [sigh]
The TBEX location decision process always seems to be the polar opposite of my own travel plans… I tend to be in Europe for the summer and elsewhere September to March. Unless I have serious amounts of euro next year to justify a brief trip to Vancouver (since I travel to avoid speaking English!), I’ll have to skip the main one and I’ll likely be too far away to consider going back to the old continent before Christmas.
Looks like I’ll have to wait until 2012 to give my big presentation about language travelling! Hope everyone else has a blast though! I’ll be reading all the happy tweets in teeth-grinding jealousy from some as-yet-unknown country! :P
Aw, so nice that you’ll be able to meet the Euro bloggers!
I’m upset that I won’t be able to make it to Vancouver — that same weekend is a close friend’s wedding, in which I am a bridesmaid, as well as my five-year college reunion. Wedding trumps all. :-( But it’s nice to know that I won’t be the ONLY only North American blogger not there….
Consider me jealous! I’d love to go to Copenhagen. Have a great time.
Excellent choice.
Aw, it’s a shame we won’t get to meet you in Vancouver, but enjoy TBEX Europe!
Check out http://www.easyjet.com for flights to Copenhagen from London for around £27 including taxes! For that sort of price I’m considering making a weekend trip of it…
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