Teach people how to design and grow their own organic vegetable gardens. Provide them with the space, the tools and the know-how they need to make it self-sustainable. Provide long term support and create a sense of community around it. Do all of this and you will have Edible Routes, […]
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Eyes with no smile and no rancour, with no desire nor fear, neither hard nor gentle. Just the resolute humbleness of those who know hardness, and have accepted an unchanging fate. I was just going through the streets of Delhi on a taxi, or a rickshaw, I can’t remember, when […]
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A walk around Old Delhi means a visit to sacred places of all main religions, lots of markets, great street food, decadent mansions from the Mughal era, and a great poet‘s last residence. Kites are flying over the roofs of Old Delhi, they look like flocks of swallows against the […]
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The monkey temple (Swayambhu) in Kathmandu stands on a hill with overview on the whole city. Quite a touristic spot, but monkeys and souvenirs shop aside, there’s a nice art school for mandala and Buddhist deities paintings. It’s striking the difference between students, professional and masters made mandalas, even for […]
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Barbers in Kathmandu take care of hairstyle (or beard only in my case) but are also skilled in massages. A pretty nice and energetic facial scrubbing and back massage! Cool stuff. The whole thing lasted more than an hour! Highly recommended! Booking.com
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When you travel to Iceland, there’s a couple of day trips you can’t miss. Find the highlights in this post, and some extra thoughts, mostly about the hidden people. The main reason I went to Iceland was really the Laugavegur trail. However, I had time to spend in Reykjavík and to go […]
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A short, intense, and somewhat random travel itinerary in Sydney, and two spectacular day treks in the Blue Mountains. I was in Sydney for three or four days in total and I spent two of them to visit Bondi beach and Manly beach. In Bondi there’s a very nice, relatively short walk (a […]
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Sometimes when you are in a place, in a big city, you don’t really understand the culture, and the language, or much of what’s going on, but you just feel a particular vibe. Here’s what Buenos Aires experienced with locals has given me, beyond the usual touristic places. I am […]
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