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Did you stumble across our Fernweh Bag or Fernweh Tents and wonder what the heck the word Fernweh meant? Or, better yet, how to pronounce Fernweh? Well, Life inTents didn’t choose the name willy-nilly. Fernweh, in fact, has a deeper, and much more significant meaning behind it – the word and the tent!
Journey with us as we explore the meaning of Fernweh and how Life inTents was inspired to use Fernweh to name one of our most popular canvas bell tents.
Ever get itchy feet? Or a feeling of wanderlust?
We’ve all felt homesick from time to time. As a little kid at summer camp, a freshman off to college, or even an expat who moved to a new country. It’s a sense of missing a place that we know.
But what do we call the opposite of homesickness? You know, when you want to leave home behind? When you long for adventure? When you are homesick for anywhere but… home?
The feeling is not a contradiction. And the meaning isn't an oxymoron either. There’s a word for it:
But isn’t that the same as wanderlust? Close, but not exactly. Fernweh goes deeper. It’s when you ache or are sick with the desire to travel or go on an adventure or travel. (Some would even argue Fernweh applies to the act of diving into a good book to seek adventure in a fictitious world.)
With such a specific definition – maybe even one that only wanderlusts understand – where did the word Fernweh come from?
Fernweh is a German word. ‘Fern’ means ‘far’ and ‘weh’ means pain. So, it could be summed up as “Farsickness” after looking it up in a dictionary.
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