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‘Supplication before a journey’ Oh Allah! I seek refuge in you from the difficulties of the journey, from unwanted situations.. Turkish airlines again blesses
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Nihao! I am the QR code claoudiaki
November 24, 2025
Shenzen Monday, November 24 is always an ordinary day. One of those dates born for nothing to happen, not even the shadow of an
Driver of a Kosovar license plate
October 15, 2025
I wildly park with my hazard lights on. It’s pouring rain. I get soaked just to order a takeaway coffee at Fabrik, Podgorica (Montenegro),
Paulista! Tudo acaba em pizza
April 26, 2025
Pizzeria Veridiana, quartiere Jardins, São Paulo Tudo acaba em pizza!, just as for Italians it all works out in tarallucci e vino. The waiter of
Business Girl in Saudi Arabia
March 5, 2025
‘Supplication before a journey’ Oh Allah! I seek refuge in you from the difficulties of the journey, from unwanted situations.. Turkish airlines again blesses
Tashkent-Samarkand Train
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Tashkent Station, 8:30 AM It’s such a strange day, this one. I’m in Uzbekistan for work, and it seems I will soon get on
I am a Yazidi
December 30, 2024
It is the penultimate day of the year 2024, I am on the snowy road to the city of Gyumri, the ancient Aleksandropol of
Osama Bin Laden’s Buddhist temple in the Opium Valley
August 15, 2024
Tui is a millennial from Chang Rai, the ancestral centre of the ancient Lanna Kingdom. I am in northern Thailand, heading for the Golden
The Oss Bar – being a farang in Bangkok
August 10, 2024
“I am the Intrepid Traveler – Never a dull moment” Jim Thompson I sip a cup of Siamese black tea at the Oss –
Ode to Thessaloniki
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It’s pouring rain in Thessaloniki, but no one seems to mind it here at dinner, under the open-air tents of the Rouga taverna. A
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I read in a book by Ryszard Kapuściński, “Ebano”, that for Africans the concept of time is not scientific. It is a flexible, elastic,
Business girl in Saudi Arabia
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‘Supplication before a journey’ Oh Allah! I seek refuge in you from the difficulties of the journey, from unwanted situations.. Turkish airlines again blesses
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‘No-alcohol trade zone’ I am at the Macrocenter of Cesme, Turkish coast. I ended up checking the shelf of the renowned artichokes (enginarlar) from