Wandering Secrets

The reactions to my last post got me thinking about how and what I’d written about Slovakia. I wasn’t trying to list negative aspects, nor was I saying that I didn’t like my life here. It was more a cry of wanderlust than a post about Slovakia. Confused?  Me too! We’ve been living in Bratislava […]

A grey, cold Sunday afternoon in Slovakia.   The feeling that the weekend has flown by.   The melancholy of having to say goodbye to a friend.   A bus that can’t take the usual road to Devin.   A bus driver that let us out in another village, 3 km away from the Devin ruins. […]

It striked me yesterday. While my body needed a good night’s sleep, my mind kept on trying to find the reason why living in Slovakia has not been an unforgetable experience so far. Not that I’m the only one getting this feeling from life in Bratislava, but it’s been bothering me for some time now. […]

A few kilometers north of Bratislava there is a range of small vignard villages peacefully living their life… A few kilometers north, it’s not much, but it’s enough to get a feeling of what life is outside the capital city. It’s at least enough to eat something special and to drink proper Slovak wine. It […]

We, the both of us together, started travelling in 2011. Leaving France, our home, our jobs for a better place. The question was: where to? How do you choose a country to live in? How can you choose when you don’t know what the place looks like? We- I speak for ourselves- can’t. We can’t […]

“The more languages you know, the more men you are.” Being a teacher doesn’t mean that you have all the knowledge. Being a teacher includes learning from your students. And last week, I learnt something. A simple sentence, an old proverb still used in Slovakia. A proverb that explains why Slovaks are open-minded, why it’s […]

                            On my very first day in Bratislava I noticed two things: the blue sky and this gentleman keeping me company in the main square.   A week later, while wandering around the old town I saw my gentleman’s friend: the man […]