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Traveling is the perfect medium for experiencing different cultures complete with all sorts of art, music, crafts, and traditions. But visiting other countries is usually not just all roses.

With cultural differences in mind, artist Malachi Ray Rempen decided to share his traveling experience and situations in the form of funny comics dubbed "Itchy Feet Comic". This weekly cartoon drawings chronicle is mostly about travel, language jokes that happen while learning, and life as an ex-pat. It's just about any bizarre situation you can imagine yourself in while traveling.

"Itchy Feet Comic deals with two very specific areas: language learning and traveling. One of the things I love about these webcomics is the minute observations on the experiences that are so universal that you cannot help but say “That is so true!” - says the artist.

So scroll the page and have a quick walk around the world with the help of these funny drawings!

More info: itchyfeetcomic.com | Instagram | Facebook

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah now that explains Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Finn, I can confirm this is 100% true. Finns are very particular about their personal space and you absolutely do not touch strangers if you can avoid it

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Tal Jamchi
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahh yes,I recognize thi place, its the the maginificent city of Romeberlinathensparis!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a moderately hilly area, and i'm very used to the incline, so when i went to florida it was really weird that the only "hills" were bridges

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Carol Martin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True! I live in the Swiss Alps, a 5 minute Walk feels like a workout 😁

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Tanja Caloi
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Swiss here. absolutely true. and I live in the "flat" part of Switzerland. *sigh*

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Brabant (south of the Netherlands) we have many hills. Everybody thinks that Holland (a small part of the west side of the Netherlands) is the whole country. This isn’t true. I haven’t seen tulips in years here in the south!

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Jana Harms-Bouw
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in the Netherlands and I have to admit that going over a bridge or up on the dijk is a LOT of work!!!

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Luc Rochefort
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First trip to Europe was in the Nethelands with my bike. A mountain bike, 18 speeds and all! Steepest hill: an overpass.... I tried to sell my bike at one point. I couldn’t. Who needs a 18 speed mountain bike there? A 80 years old grandma passed by me on the fietspad on a one speed bike...

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Warren Eakins
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the Netherlands doesn't have in hills it make up for it with fierce wind.

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Anna Brinkman
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WE have a lot of those steep obstacles in The Netherlands. Not only bridges for all our canals , but also huge speedbumps! luckily we have a lot of electrical bikes in The Netherlands

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Jana Harms-Bouw
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HUGE speedbumps. Over the winter they installed nasty ones at either end of Oosterdijk (NH, north of Enkhuizen). Ouch!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, even in the US, going from the midwest (flat as a pancake) to the east coast, where a 45* upslope is "just up the block" was fascinating, lol.

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Arek Syćko
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Switzerland is more tunnels right through the mountain... but sill somewhat true

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Anna Repp
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same in the US! In the Midwest it's a "very sharp turns ahead", in Montana no one even bothers to make them :)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up in north luxembourg (Ardennes & Eifel) and moved to Berlin to study and it's sooo flat here ... I miss my home country

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once travelled to Scotland with 2 Dutch and an Irish, the Irish and I spent the whole trip laughing at the dutchies taking photos of hills

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uh, Niels, to English speakers, "dyke" is a terrible thing to call a lesbian. Better to spell it "dike". Just to help. And you're right, going up a dijk is a lot more work! I live in Enkhuizen, NH.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup sounds about right. Having an american best friend is very eye-opening for both of us! They drive outside their state about once a year, out familytravels often means car and going through 7ish countries to get to our destination

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a native French, I honestly admire people learning french : this langage is hard ! Therefore I would never make fun or faking not to understand just because is is not perfect. This comic shows a very parisian reaction you would probably not know somewhere else in France...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans are chronically sleep deprived. We need a constant infusion of coffee.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's very respectful to greet people in their native language when you travel abroad

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Ruth Sneddon
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Translation: There's a nice cottage in the small valley just past the farm by the edge of the lake.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just so very accurate... (hardly anyone sings "zum Geburtstag viel Glück!")

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar in Hispanic countries. Tourists don’t know that you can bargain the price and get something for quite cheap—if you’re lucky that is.

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