Saturday, December 21, 2024

To travel is to experience change >>

Scenic scenes seen from a bus window
Why boarding a bus invites introspective reflections and pleasures of the everyday. Next stop which loosely translates to prochain arrêt in French revolves around the bus rides and why there’s more to it than getting on and getting off.  Among all the things that we do but don’t really pay...
Locals and tourists alike aboard a ferry - Flying Baguette
Distilling the joys and pleasures of travel and welcoming the new realities moving forward in a post COVID world  The English woman and my American partner had lost their grip. Between the voice from our rental car’s GPS and my partner’s grumbling, it was difficult to ascertain which side I...
man sitting on the seashore
Under the cobalt glory of the Algarve sky, I arrived in Olhão, Portugal in the sweet summer of 2019. My affection towards the town and my wish to go back there is echoed in the work of fiction written below. The names and the events are completely made up but...
Cat sitting on a couch
When was the last time you traveled? With very few destinations to visit these days due to Covid-19, what's the good of moving when you could travel sitting so comfortably on a chair?  Yes I have been to Vienna. Just last night, I was back in the Austrian capital.I didn’t...
Budapest city scene
When I visited Budapest in 2015, I spent most of my time contentedly settled in one of the city’s coffee shop houses, eavesdropping and making conversations with people at the next spindly table. It was wonderful to immerse in a city and get lost in its inflection and quirkiness like...
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