Claudia Zecchin

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Shenzen Monday, November 24 is always an ordinary day. One of those dates born for nothing to happen, not even the shadow of an anniversary. I have just boarded the Shenzhen–West Kowloon
November 24, 2025

Driver of a Kosovar license plate

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), before the long journey that will take me
October 15, 2025

Paulista! Tudo acaba em pizza

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 Veridiana, an elegant eatery listed among the 10
April 26, 2025

Business Girl in Saudi Arabia

‘Supplication before a journey’ Oh Allah! I seek refuge in you from the difficulties of the journey, from unwanted situations.. Turkish airlines again blesses my flight out of Istanbul, direction Saudi Arabia.
March 5, 2025

Tashkent-Samarkand Train

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 a train that will take me to meet
March 5, 2025

I am a Yazidi

It is the penultimate day of the year 2024, I am on the snowy road to the city of Gyumri, the ancient Aleksandropol of the tsars, now Armenia. We are in the
December 30, 2024

Ode to Thessaloniki

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 couple of mangas play rebbetiko, like the first night I dined
July 2, 2024

Random Mzungus in the Rift Valley

I read in a book by Ryszard Kapuściński, “Ebano”, that for Africans the concept of time is not scientific. It is a flexible, elastic, open-ended and subjective category. In Africa it is
June 21, 2024
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