Claudia Zecchin, Author at cinnamomo

Baku-Tbilisi night train

The first time I went to Georgia was in June 2018… It was a cool spring evening in Baku. We could still dine with the window open in the city, before the

June 8, 2018

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Wanna-be pilgrim in the Valley of Galilee

10.50 p.m. Nazareth, Galilee. Betharram Institute. I write by the outmoded window of my cell. The view is of downtown Nazareth, a carpet of lights in the distance inhabited by the Muslim

October 20, 2017

israel

Tel Aviv was built on the sand

In a Tel Aviv just as technological and avant-garde as scruffy and oriental, I search for the symbol of the Zionist affluent at the beginning of the XX century, the Bauhaus houses.

October 19, 2017

israel

48 hours in Tel Aviv – embarking

An ordinary Wednesday. Flight at noon, destination Tel Aviv. It was 9 a.m., the Israeli flight company Elal was asking to show up at the gate three hours in advance. In line

October 18, 2017

israel