Santorini

Sun-dried octopus and donkey I don’t know one person who does not have Santorini on their bucket list. On mine, it’s been there since around mid-2009, when I was fifteen and sick, off from school,…

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Among the Seal Graves

…How I attended a seal wake… I have always been a massive fan of wildlife, and being near seal pups was one of my lifelong dreams. It seemed so simple: hop on the bus from…

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Overthinker in Edinburgh

You take the night bus for the reason. And the reason is you are too cheap to pay for a train. National Express from London Victoria Coach Station to Edinburgh costs approximately £25, and you…

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From Venice to Elba

Life can get gloomy if, every now and then, I am not spending sleepless nights at the airport. I bought the ticket back in January. Naively thinking how I would be hiking the majestic Dolomites.…

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Pico to pico fail

Madeira II I was dreaming about Pico to Pico hike from September 2022. I had an idiotic romantic idea of myself effortlessly walking above the clouds. So it was utterly upsetting when Monday morning came…

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