Most of you out there will probably agree with me that setting foot in a country for the first time produces an unparalleled, enthralling feeling. This is especially true when the subject country is one you've been dreaming to visit for a long long time. That was the case with me and Russia. Ever since I started to become acquainted with the world's geography and history: right … [Read more...]
A Random Girl, a Random Night in Cape Town
...Quite a few hours must have passed since the moment we were clinking the first beer glasses in an Irish pub until the next vivid memory I have: wondering “where the hell am I?” while drifting wasted along a dark narrow street.Only a few blurry images remained in my recollection from the blank interval in between: a Rastafari guitarist playing a Gibson off the … [Read more...]
Drymonas Waterfalls and Mount Xiron (Xiron Oros) on North Evia
This is a post about a hiking trip to Drymonas Waterfalls and Mount Xiron on North Evia Island in Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.It was one of the first days of 2018 which found me and my good company at the village of Mantoudi on the north of the island of Evia. … [Read more...]
Two Days in Meteora in the Winter
It was a dark and cold winter daybreak in a vacant parking lot somewhere in Larissa, the capital city of Thessaly Region in central Greece. We were sitting in the car, crouching and shivering inside our thick jackets while waiting for the engine and the interior of the car to warm up and the frost on the windows to melt. We would soon start driving towards one of Greece's most … [Read more...]
A Winter Trip to Mount Pelion in Magnesia, Greece
This is a post about hiking on Mount Pelion in Magnesia Region of Central Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.It was about noontime of a freezing-cold, overcast day we were crossing the bridge over the straits of Euripus separating the island of Euboea from the Greek … [Read more...]
A Tanzanian Man Waiting for a European Benefactor
...Another nice chap I got to meet in Dar Es Salaam was Ibrahim. He was one of those tout-hustlers who parasitized the tourists. I, however, as a Greek, ought to have been a sailor and not a tripper. So I wasn’t a prospective client. I had known him since the very day of my arrival. He constantly shuffled around the neighborhood, and I bumped into him all too often.One evening, … [Read more...]
A Hiking Trip on Mount Hymettus
After the cloudy mood of the past few weeks, a more casual for Greece, brilliant day finally rose over the peninsula of Attica this morning. The bright sky in combination with the mild, November temperature made a perfect day to do some hiking. At 8 am, I met in Syntagma Square, downtown Athens, the folks from the Mountaineering Club of Athens. All 35 individuals who made … [Read more...]
When I Climbed that Pyramid in Giza
Under no circumstances could I let this opportunity pass without paying a visit to Giza and its pyramids. So, very early one morning, having started at dawn to avoid the traffic, I was passing beside the welcoming Sphinx and I was ascending that corridor, watching those pyramidal tombs swelling in my sight as I was getting closer to them.What an unparalleled emotion does one … [Read more...]
A Zimbabwean Recycling Artist
...There was only that one bloke whose trust I managed to win. Akasinga was a toothless, fifty-year-old man who used to patronize the inn in the evenings. You would never see him mingle with the rest of the throng that frequented the place. He always sat alone in a dark corner of the yard, near the wall. His lit cigarette glowing through the darkness made me aware of his … [Read more...]
A Bedouin in Mount Sinai
...By noontime, as I was climbing down the mountain from the same path and reapproached that little village in the narrow valley, a jovial Bedouin man, standing by his garden’s threshold, invited me to his home. His name was Ramadan. He was one of the 15-20 patres familias who had created this heavenly oasis amid this inhospitable, divine environment.We perched in a … [Read more...]
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