Pack your reading partners
January 28, 2018Travel stories,Reading,Book exchangeTravel,Stories,RAM,RTW,Asia,Southeast Asia,Vietnam,Cambodia,Solo travel,Backpacking,Books
Travelling around the world is best accompanied with a reading partner. I’m talking about books, of course. And this is a backpacker’s dilemma. They don’t fit…
Postcards from Vietnam – I love the smell of napalm in the morning
January 15, 2018Travel stories,United States,TravelPhotography,Asia,Southeast Asia,Vietnam,Backpacking,One month,Hanoi,Postcards from,War,Coppola
Landing in Hanoi was like landing in a fantasy shaped by the explosions in Apocalypse Now and the positive feedback of fellow travellers. My idea of Vietnam…
India photo essay: an aftertaste of conformity
January 7, 2018Travel stories,New Dehli,CalcutaAmritsar,Jaipur,Mumbai,Photography,Poverty,Photo Essay,Contrast,Asia,Backpacking,Asia,Photography,Two weeks,Long trip,India,Marc Sanchez,Marti Garcia
We weren’t ready. A few minutes after leaving the airport, at the first red light, the taxi driver shouted at us, worried, and told us to roll up the windows.…
Sunsets turn to grey: a tale of Southern Italy
December 17, 2017Travel stories,Ravello,AmalfiMother,Sunset,Story,Travel,Narrative,Tales,Europe,Italy,Southern Italy,Coast,Narrative,Mafia,Naples,Positano
It was another hellish summer day in Positano. The tourists boats were coming in since first hour in the morning. Not much had changed in town. On the way home…
The power of spontaneity
December 10, 2017Travel stories,S21,24hSolo travel,Spontaneity,RAM,RTW,Asia,Travel Journal,Cambodia,Matteo Pizzinato,Travelers,Friendship,Phnom Penh,Sey,Killing Fields
The bus from Ho Chi Minh took around 6 hours, seems to have come straight out of the seventies and doesn’t have air conditioning. Once I got to the…
Koh Rong, opposing views on paradise lost
December 3, 2017Travel stories,Mass tourismBeach,Asia,Pau Riera,China,Island,Koh Rong,Cambodia,Paradise,Development,Business,Testimonial
A few years ago there was no electricity. And when electricity arrived, it could only be used a few certain hours per day. Now there’s wifi, a couple of fast…






