Paulista! Tudo acaba em pizza
Pizzeria Veridiana, quartiere Jardins, São Paulo Tudo acaba em pizza!, just as for Italians it all works out in tarallucci e vino. The waiter of Veridiana, an elegant eatery listed among the 10
Tashkent-Samarkand Train
Tashkent Station, 8:30 AM It’s such a strange day, this one. I’m in Uzbekistan for work, and it seems I will soon get on a train that will take me to meet
I am a Yazidi
It is the penultimate day of the year 2024, I am on the snowy road to the city of Gyumri, the ancient Aleksandropol of the tsars, now Armenia. We are in the
Osama Bin Laden’s Buddhist temple in the Opium Valley
Tui is a millennial from Chang Rai, the ancestral centre of the ancient Lanna Kingdom. I am in northern Thailand, heading for the Golden Triangle, where I will overlook Myanmar and Laos
The Oss Bar – being a farang in Bangkok
“I am the Intrepid Traveler – Never a dull moment” Jim Thompson I sip a cup of Siamese black tea at the Oss – a corner of ineffable Orientalist aesthetics, warmed by
Ode to Thessaloniki
It’s pouring rain in Thessaloniki, but no one seems to mind it here at dinner, under the open-air tents of the Rouga taverna. A couple of mangas play rebbetiko, like the first night I dined
Random Mzungus in the Rift Valley
I read in a book by Ryszard Kapuściński, “Ebano”, that for Africans the concept of time is not scientific. It is a flexible, elastic, open-ended and subjective category. In Africa it is
Business girl in Saudi Arabia
‘Supplication before a journey’ Oh Allah! I seek refuge in you from the difficulties of the journey, from unwanted situations.. Turkish airlines again blesses my flight out of Istanbul, direction Saudi Arabia.
Easterdan and elections in the Turkaegean
‘No-alcohol trade zone’ I am at the Macrocenter of Cesme, Turkish coast. I ended up checking the shelf of the renowned artichokes (enginarlar) from Urla, despite I was looking for a bottle
The magic of the Laima chocolate tower
There is an iconic place in Riga that encapsulates the diverse souls of Latvia and its last hundred years of history. It is the clock tower of the Laima chocolate shop, guardian