Wandering Secrets

I met her at the hostel, on a very hot spring day. Matka canyon, Macedonia, 2016 She had been travelling for a bunch of years. She had seen so much, been through so much, that it sounded unreal when she said “I don’t want to see anything new anymore.” She had the best travel stories, […]

There are three ways a flight can go: blissfully stable, (violently)turbulent, chaotically ending in a freefall. We say that flying is the safest way to move around, that it’s safer to get on a plane than in a car; that a plane can’t really fall and even if it did there’s a chance you land […]

Brno, July 2015.   Wandering around the streets of lovely Brno under the heat of the sun, we were looking for something to do indoors. It was either hiding from the sun, or complying to my friends’ request to rent a SEGWAY. Yakes, a segway. I hate those things. That’s how we’ll all end up […]

It took me weeks to find out what was wrong with me. In between cries, loss of appetite, mood changes, insecurity and wanting to leave everything behind once again, I finally read an article that was describing exactly how I felt. That was putting words on feelings and things I couldn’t explain. I didn’t know there […]

“You see, in the end he burnt his wings and died” he said.   My eyes were mesmerized by the sun, setting on the mountain, colouring the landscape in gold, as I was standing behind Icarus. We seemed to be watching the same thing, him an I: the skyline over the mountains; the sunshine; the […]

“I just don’t get how you get completely stressed out with paperwork but being out there sleeping on a bench doesn’t bother you at all” I don’t know what it is that makes me so nervous when I come back to my family and friends. I love it though. I really do. I’m actually really […]

here’s a non-exhaustive list of what to take with you if you’re moving to Bratislava. As always, take the essentials and never take something…