Month: March 2025
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My troubles in Eastern Europe is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Hungary and Bulgaria. Particularly in Budapest, as soon as I arrived I found myself with a blocked ATM and credit card and very little money. While in Sofia an energetic man who was mad at me for…
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Other completely different scenery is on the way up to the Andes. Here, of course, the desert is rocky and arid given the altitude, and at the highest point where we stopped(Mirador de los vulcanes), we could see the highest peaks of the Andes. This rather long journey saw us leave before dawn, and at…
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Sleeping in hostels was another big change on this trip, and for a poor seasonal student worker, it was a way to save money, but also to make friends. In fact, in the era of talking to people, interesting acquaintances were made in hostels. The featured photo was generated by artificial intelligence. Sleeping in hostels:…
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New Friends in Jordan is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me during the first part of my trip to Jordan. Specifically from when I went to Amman, Jerash, and the Dead Sea. I met interesting people, other travelers but also locals. In fact in the Dead Sea you really float,…
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I took the featured photo on the last of my many weekends in Tuscany, during a wonderful trek in the ‘ Pratese Apennines. That trailer could have been: With presumed or would-be girlfriends, arranging a weekend in Tuscany (or Marche and Umbria, close to my home) has also often been a way to better gauge…
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The tour to the Islas Ballestas was the start with a bang of a stellar trip, but if I had chosen the itinerary, I would have given more space to Lima, which we visited rather hastily instead. Tours in the Islas Ballestas These small islands are called the Peruvian Galapagos because of the very large…
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Dialogue with my super mom in the summer of 1996 when I was 23 years old; when I told her I wanted to do the Interrail. Mother I have decided that in September I will go on the Interrail. What is it? A train journey, alone, for a month in France, UK and Ireland Uh,…
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Running from stray dogs is a verbatim account of some of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Thailand. Specifically here I talk about the early days, culminating in the stray dog episode in Ayutthaya. But much else happened to me as well. Please note that the audio is in Italian. Click below to…
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I realized the dream of traveling to Peru in August 2018. Going to the Andes was one of my geographic puns that had been in my head forever. It lasted 17 days and was a group trip with an agency. The destinations were. This was our itinerary, very classic compared to those who go to…
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I could have said that my singles cruise victory was that the prettiest girl in the group agreed to visit me the following week. I actually went blank, I had expectations, but evidently there was a misunderstanding. Or maybe it was because I couldn’t have won twice. The lottery In fact, as we were standing…