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 […]

“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 […]

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…

We’d heard of that village before: Matala. Sounded a bit African; but definitely not Greek. The nice prose of the guidebook made us dream of how they followed the steps of Cat Stevens or Bob Dylan, how getting to the caves reminded you of the 60s, how the hippies fought for their beliefs and carved […]

Moving to China? Keep it simple! Four pair of trousers, three pair of shoes, as many tops as you can and…

The simple answer is: it gets as expensive as you want it to be. There’s a range of quality and price for every purse, although you are there to spend. It’s very much like going to SE Asia: you can spend close to nothing to hundreds. But it’s likely that you’ll buy more than what […]