What’s travelling like, really? Travelling is three camera batteries and a soggy burger wrapped in a t-shirt in your backpack. Travelling is maps from cities you forgot to take out of your pocket. Travelling is hazy streetlights outside the bus window, a world of happy strangers in a city you never thought you’d see. Travelling …
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Anecdotes of Europe #3: Story of a Knife
This story is about a knife. I visited Switzerland pretty early during my summer stay in Germany in 2011. I have friends there with whom I stayed. When I was about to return by train, my friend Alex who had come to see me off went into a tourist shop with me in the station …
Anecdotes of Europe #2: How karma travelled from Venice to Prague
You may remember Vishal from my last Europe anecdote, the guy I had travelled to a few countries with. In the same weekend that we visited Rome, we also visited Venice for a day. (We also toured Pisa and the Vatican City that weekend. Yeah, hell of a trip.) So as we arrived in Venice …
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Anecdotes of Europe #1: The Tipsies of Rome
For a long time I’ve been thinking of blogging about some experiences I had in Europe during my summer Europe trip of 2011. I decided I’d write them down in a single blog post as a series of small anecdotes. I sat down today to write it, and found that just one of the anecdotes …
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