Pack your reading partners
January 28, 2018Travel stories,RAM,RTWAsia,Southeast Asia,Vietnam,Cambodia,Solo travel,Backpacking,Books,Reading,Book exchange,Travel,Stories
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,Asia,Southeast AsiaVietnam,Backpacking,One month,Hanoi,Postcards from,War,Coppola,United States,Travel,Photography
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,Jaipur,MumbaiPhotography,Poverty,Photo Essay,Contrast,Asia,Backpacking,Asia,Photography,Two weeks,Long trip,India,Marc Sanchez,Marti Garcia,New Dehli,Calcuta,Amritsar
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,Positano,RavelloAmalfi,Mother,Sunset,Story,Travel,Narrative,Tales,Europe,Italy,Southern Italy,Coast,Narrative,Mafia,Naples
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,Killing Fields,S2124h,Solo travel,Spontaneity,RAM,RTW,Asia,Travel Journal,Cambodia,Matteo Pizzinato,Travelers,Friendship,Phnom Penh,Sey
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,TestimonialMass tourism,Beach,Asia,Pau Riera,China,Island,Koh Rong,Cambodia,Paradise,Development,Business
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…






