Valencia is like the Beauty and the Beast. Stunning painterly Roman and Moorish architecture mingle with Calatrava’s spacial luminescence, the ...
Africa / Middle East
Wines from Israel go beyond religious rites
Wines from Israel take mostly the coat of kosher wines exported to suit the orthodox Jewish wine drinkers' religious needs. Yet, winemaking in modern Israel is not only about pleasing ...
Jerusalem: Religion ‘MADE TO LAST’
I’m not alone to be mystified by Jerusalem. The ancient city on a rocky hill under a siege of a dusty desert hardly wows with classical beauty though. It is ...
The Louvre Abu Dhabi: the Middle Eastern art scene surges beyond its desert horizons
The Middle Eastern art scene will never be the same. One of the best living architects in the world, Jean Nouvel, created yet another masterpiece with the Louvre Abu Dhabi ...
Asia
Naoshima and Lee Ufan: expressive interconnection “exalting the self and the other”
Lee Ufan nudges you to see what you normally do not see. As in meditation, his work is not about ideas but rather transcendence of the self. The philosophical artworks ...
Cruising the Mekong River in Laos
Cruising the Mekong at sunset can be an unforgettable experience, if you do it right. In Luang Prabang, there are large, with tourists packed loud boats taking you for a ...
Spiritual charms of Luang Prabang
The spiritual charms of Luang Prabang breathe out the air of authentic, focused, generous, innocent, kind, open and pure Buddhist attitude. Being, and not just Instagram-posting, in this UNESCO shrine ...
Australia / Pacific
Waiheke Island: the bohemian spirit of New Zealand
Blissful Mediterranean lifestyle in the South Pacific Ocean? New Zealand is more known for its sheep, dramatic verdant landscapes, and rugby, rather than olive groves, umbrella shadow casting pines, and la ...
Tasmania: stalking the Tasmanian Devil
As a child I had been always fascinated by the Warner Bros. cartoon of the Tasmanian Devil. Taz had his allure. With mouth wide open in most scenes, his teeth ...
Tasmania: windswept beauty of a remote Australian island
Spending time in Tasmania, the rocky, rural and remote mass of land in the Southern hemisphere, shifts one’s race car powered engine into a historic automobile’s phlegmatic attitude. In a ...
Europe
Valencia: Awakened Synchronicity in the Mediterranean City of Joy and Valour
Valencia is like the Beauty and the Beast. Stunning painterly Roman and Moorish architecture mingle with Calatrava's spacial luminescence, the utilitarian port (busiest in the Mediterranean), eclectic street art, athletic ...
Costa Blanca: calming white-washed photo story
Costa Blanca stretches South of Valencia from Denia through the province of Alicante taking some 200 km of the pebble beaches and dramatically rocky Mediterranean coast of Spain. Some visually ...
Pandemic travels: what they’ve taught me about humanity in the crowded world we live in
Glamorously we got so used to traveling beyond the two holiday trips per year that taking the cross-border experience away feels like a galactic loss. Pandemic travels have changed our ...
North America
The Bermudas beaches magic, naturalness and mysteries
Artists like Kipling, Twain, O’Neil, English royalty of the glamorous times past, American political elite, they all vacationed at the breezy coral Bermudas beaches. A century later, the natural mysterious ...
Pandemic travels: what they’ve taught me about humanity in the crowded world we live in
Glamorously we got so used to traveling beyond the two holiday trips per year that taking the cross-border experience away feels like a galactic loss. Pandemic travels have changed our ...
Invisible: Hiking the wild-side of LA and finding peace in nature
California offers splendid trails as sprawling as its legendary roads. Naturally traffic-free, hiking the wild-side of LA and finding peace in nature is my favourite thing about the stretched sunny ...
South America
Buenos Aires: a trip-worth expression of Latin America’s street art
Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina is where a metropolis meets an affluent heritage contrasted by its harsh current life. The epitome of untamed politics of the South American continent, ...
Cartagena de Indias: embark on romance in Latin America
People like to romanticize Cartagena. As the horse coaches leisurely clap through its narrow cobbled streets, and the setting sun caresses the colorful heritage façades with its gentle soft and ...
Mendoza: feed your senses where Andes meet the vines of Argentina
Rocks, dust and a scorching sun are the most likely setting for a cacti show, not for the verdant bushes of vines rolling up from the mountains bottoms towards the ...