Lest I forget the nights spent awake late, far too late, gathered around a crackling fire far out in the garden where the wifi connection breaks and hampers the flow…
A Moving Story
After twenty years of collecting miscellaneous memories in disparate spots and stringing them together into a vibrant tapestry of youth, the parental house will be sold, cardboard boxes abound around…
Learning how to Read again
A precious moment, one unlike most, and yet so simple, that it only requires a couple of lines to sketch out. The grey stone crumbling bridge over an empty moat….
The only Problem with Padova is that it’s not Venice
Padova boasts an ancient history, tracing a continuous line from nebulous mythology, stringing Roman and Byzantine beads along its course right up until the Italian present. Decorative footprints of these…
How to go on a Date in Prague
First you will scout out the city, familiarise yourself with its streets, how they snake through the different districts, make note of the cute red trams that accelerate transport in…
Mischievous Child
So, despite my preferred mode of existence resembling something like being glued to my girlfriend Indira and never letting go, some weeks past we arrived amongst the highest peaks of…
Explaining my Francophile Tendencies
My favourite Sister has completed her first year of university and of course everyone rejoices. To celebrate after finishing her final exam we spend a weekend in Normandy, accompanied by…
Not getting Kidnapped by Muslims
Its Latin name might not betray her Islamic heritage, as Mallorca indicates “the larger one” in opposition to Menorca, “the smaller one”, but like the neighbouring Balearic Islands and most…
Populated by a (French Speaking) Horse’s Head
We drive over the outer edges of the French Pyrenees, fields of warm sunflowers and ripening grapes on both sides, occasionally passing a thin church tower sticking out above a…
Pushing Indi off a Cliff
We live in a hole in a sandstone cliff, carved by unknown hands, listening to some music after lunch, hiding there from the sun, and looking out over the sea….