• A pelican in flight seen up close in Djoudj National Park in Senegal

    It’s not like in Tanzania or going on safari, but still you see animals in Senegal. Live and dead, they are almost all free. Animal citizens in Senegal In the daily routine of many Senegalese is the sharing of space with pets. They live together with people and are almost never tethered or fenced in.…

  • Image created by artificial intelligence, me in a disco with the protagonists of Miami vice

    My interesting acquaintances while traveling often included other travelers. Sometimes even people living in the place I visited and even immigrants. Meeting expats in Miami was the most interesting thing about my days there. I had also gone there to visit my friend Tania, who introduced me to both her mom and sister and their…

  • Me in Matera, behind me extras dressed as Roman centurions prepare to stage a living nativity scene

    This is a verbatim account of some of the funniest evenings that have happened to me while traveling, in some cases they are also big travel oddities. Like the time I found myself dancing on tables in a Scottish dance hall, or when I lost a dinner, bet with a Korean girl watching a soccer…

  • Calamity from Senegal, handcrafted wood depicting an African mask colored green

    Me and Senegalese taxi drivers, even without cars In my independent touring in Africa, I have had to deal with original public transportation. I have vividly in my mind the moment of leaving Saint Luis in the rain. Yes, because even in Africa it sometimes rains. I was lucky to get out of my bnb…

  • Image created by artificial intelligence of me meeting Goofy and Clarabella at Disney World

    Going to Disney World I wrote this in one of the reports I emailed live during the 2004 solo trip. Many years later, a bitter film m at also entertaining, about the world that is next to that from the parks-a dream called Florida. I had to think hard about what to see at Disney…

  • Golden statue of a sleeping Buddha lying in a garden in Luang Prabang, Laos

    Where water becomes schnapps Traveling in Southeast Asia is a verbatim account of the oddities that happened to me particularly in Laos and Cambodia. It was during the trip made in January 2025, which I made solo and which lasted 10 days Traveling in Southeast Asia It is the easiest area of the non-Western world…

  • Berlin's most famous kissing mural depicts the kiss between the communist leaders of the USSR and East Germany

    Especially at one time, I had an easy time making acquaintances on the road. Even in big cities that, experienced as a traveler, I found electrifying because of the many things to experience and because, if you have limited time, you have to plan well. And, as mentioned, several times in this blog, I like…

  • Modern, ironclad Faidherbe bridge connecting the mainland to the island that is the historic cdcenter, lit up at night above the Senegal River

    Traveling is not only seeing beautiful places Visiting Africa is not, or not only, going on safari to spot wild animals, or wandering around pyramids. In this article are the latest videos from Senegal. To the many who have asked me if it was a good trip, I reply that I saw a couple of…

  • Three shirts purchased on the trip to the U.S.; a black one with two stylized images of women the sexy one with the words my girlfriend and the stylized one with the words your girlfriend. An orange one with the fake stamp of permission to be drunk from the New Orleans police and a white one with lil photomontage of me holding a crocodile

    I had the opportunity to visit New Orleans the year before the disasters of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating in history. I wrote this story on the occasion of my 2004 solo trip to the US. Of New Orleans, the atmosphere is very nice; if you walk around the non-touristy streets, everyone you…

  • Colorful and bright Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, with its flower garden full of colorful flower beds

    In memorable encounters touring the Baltic countries I tell verbally what happened to me in August 2017. In particular of the three interesting women I met, of three different nationalities. One of them I saw in three of the countries I visited and then also in Italy. The featured photo shows the Kadriorg Palace in…

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