Category: Fellow travelers
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Wrong Travel Companions is a verbatim account of a series of case histories of wrong company, at least for me. The tobacconist, the cheapskate, the quarrelsome, the souvenir hunter, the selfie-taker, and the one who walks around with dirty underwear in his hand: here is a roundup of anecdotes taken from different trips. Above all,…
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Christmas in the Balearics and traveling with Mom, were diversions during visits to my brother who lives in Barcelona. In 2023, 11 months after the previous time I returned to Catalonia and it was an impromptu thing. My mom had been traveling quite a bit with my deceased father for a year and a half.…
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It makes me laugh a lot to think that when asked what to do in Zanzibar, someone would answer to eat Italian food. As mentioned earlier, if it were up to me, the visit to Zanzibar would have been shorter. This is despite certain memorable photos like the one featured. Domestic flight to Zanzibar The…
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The idea of traveling to Spain came to me many times, and of those many times I happened to go to Barcelona. It is the country I have visited on several occasions and where I feel most at home. I remember well the first time I went there, when I was observing from the airplane…
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The wrong company when traveling is one of the most recurring themes in this blog. It is no accident that I often travel alone! I happen to associate phrases, even seemingly insignificant ones, with people from my past. One is: why, even tonight, do you want to have dinner? In this article I tell you…
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Not that I have done many, but as a group trip I think it turned out to be quite anomalous. I like to observe and understand the dynamics within groups, and in that sense a group trip is great. During college among the exams that interested me most were those in social psychology. I remember…
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The drive on the Great Ocean road is considered one of the most spectacular in the world, but first there was to visit Melbourne and to finally spend some time with my brother. An update on my face book page: I am an eyewitness that they have seals, whales, crocodiles, sharks, wallabies and all kinds…
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Drinking port in Porto was one of my lifelong dreams. My first time in Portugal was as a couple on an 8-day touring trip in July 2023. These were the main destinations We moved around a little by car and a little by public transportation, arriving in Porto and returning from Lisbon. This is the…
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In this article I mention a good number of my wrong travel companions, particularly visiting northern Italy and specifically in Friuli, Val d’Aosta, Piedmont and Veneto. But also two examples of perfect companions. Wrong travel companions: the risk of meeting strangers A few times I met people I met online. In general it went well…
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I fulfilled my plan to go to Prague in winter in December 2014. I stayed away for five days with a brother of mine; we went by car. In addition to Prague, we stopped in Fussen on the way out and arrived in Dresden, also in Germany, before returning. This brother had gone to live…