Welcome to Clermont-Ferrand, the city which is, I guess, unknown to many of you. At least I can say that when I mention its name French people look at me in a strange way and can’t believe I once lived there and non French people usually never heard of it. Some time ago I saw a video Clermont-Ferrand in 48 hours made by the Tourist Organization of the city and I felt nostalgic. It’s been almost 7 years since I left this city where I lived for a year. This video reminded me of the days spent in Lecoq Garden where…
More tan 100 km of canals surrounding the city center shaping it like a horse shoe, buildings that look like Gingerbread cookies, tall and narrow with huge windows, hundreds of bykers that pass you by not caring about running you over, romantic atmosphere, smell of marihuana, cloudy sky and thousands of tourists, Amsterdam, the beautiful city in the North-West of Europe is all that. Relaxed Dutch people will let you peek into their homes as no one seems to care about curtains, you’ll understand that bicycles always come first because you’ll be more scared of them than of cars, you’ll see lots of…
2/07/2016 Imerovigli -You know, I made a wish, I told him. I wished for this moment to last forever, I wished we were lost in time and stayed on this island forever, like two unknown passengers caught on a postcard. He didn’t reply but he moved closer to the fence of the terrace we were sitting on, enchanted by the blue colour of the sky and the sea. -Do you think we will ever come back here? I asked him. -Of course, he replied. One day, when we are 60, we will rent a room in a hotel with the…
It’s been a long time since I last wrote about Barcelona, actually I almost haven’t written anything about this city at all. It seems easier, after visiting some other place, to write and post photos from the trip as I am full of impressions and experiences. But, when you live somewhere, things change a little bit. After a while, you stop looking at it through the eyes of a tourist and, as time goes by, you start calling it home. Then, after some more time, you stop noticing main tourist attractions and they become a part of your every day life.…
How many times have you heard people call a place “paradise on earth”? This expression usually refers to islands in the Caribbean Sea, their turquoise sea, white beaches and cloudless sky. Unfortunately, I have still not had the opportunity to visit the Caribbean, but I also think there is no need to go that far in order to find paradise. There are so many magical places also in Europe, that one life is probably not enough to visit everything. Today, I wanted to spend forty-three seconds with you in a place called Imerovigli, one of the towns on the cliffs of…
Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life . . . For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you said to me: “I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now.” “But we must wait,” I said. “Wait? For what?” “For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.” At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed…
Tram No. 28 has become a true symbol of Lisbon. Even before I visited it, I had heard about the famous Lisbon tram, a tram you need to ride on and take photos of… It is curious how some monuments and things turn into city symbols, and how, because of excessive marketing, an authentic experience turns into an exhausting one thanks to mass tourism. This is also the case with Lisbon Tram No. 28. The small yellow trams operating on this route are very charming and date from the late 1920s. The ride would be quite enjoyable if only there weren’t lines…
