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Pacific Costa Rica in photos
. In a good company I set forth to Costa Rica on June 2012, the hottest time of the year in its Pacific coast, for a preparations trip. A better yet company awaited us there. An outstanding host lodged us, … Continue reading
A week in Kiev. May 2012
. After spending three delightful days in my beloved Toruń (Poland), plus one more in a collapsed and messy Warsaw, that works in a frenzy for showing a pretty face of progress, developement and modernity to the world and to … Continue reading
Under the Tampere sky
. She was a bit drunk, as usual. I was a bit dispelled, as often. At the taxi stop, we melted in a long, warm, tight hug. I could read her feelings by the pressure of her hands on my … Continue reading
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Happy people don't travel
. Please allow me, reader, to just put it this way, even if only for the sake of lyricism (or of marketing!): Happy people don’t travel. No doubt, that statement is an oversimplification; but it is precisely in its simplicity … Continue reading
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Ukrainian endurance
It’s Kiev. The tunnels under the main crossings, and the subway passages, are stuffed with peasants and babushkas trying to sell their measly produce to a crowd of hurried and indifferent passers-by who scarcely take any notice of them or … Continue reading
Do widzenia, Warsaw. (Do widzenia, Poland.)
. A farewell to Warsaw (and somehow to Poland as well). Goodby Warsaw, I’m leaving you today. Goodby, goodby, goodby. Goodby all you people. There’s nothing you can say to make me change my mind. Goodby. (“Adapted” from Pink Floyd) … Continue reading
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The white silence
. We got out the smoky pub into the chill quiet night. A gentle, fairy-tale snowfall welcomed us, and the fresh cold air meant a blessing for my lunges. The old town was silent under the faint, modest lights of … Continue reading
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The Ukrainian bus adventure
. The Ukrainian bus was a heap of scrap, as old and filthy as I hadn’t seen the like since the impoverished Spain of my early childhood, and it had no heating at all. It took us eight hours to … Continue reading