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Category: Travel

All posts written on or about my travel adventures.

Returning CharactersTravel

Singapore: The bubbling kettle of cultures

Puzzle Pieces6 June, 20227 June, 2022

The intense smell of durian infused our tiny Chinatown hotel room drenched in mould and poor interior design. It is a remarkable improvement from our nightmare bunker in Indiantown the morning before, where my claustrophobia kept me up almost as…

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Amelia Earhart, Johnny Bravo
Travel

Människoöden (human fates): the man with the white speckled beard

Puzzle Pieces8 March, 20228 March, 2022

Today I had a rare opportunity. I was given the chance to look at the outward silhouette of a mentally ill man and deal with the situation like a reaponsible adult. I asked myself what would Jesus do? Buddha? …Sherlock…

Continue reading ➞ Människoöden (human fates): the man with the white speckled beard
Returning CharactersTravel

In the country that smells like rotten eggs and farts: A weekend away in Iceland

Puzzle Pieces13 December, 202113 December, 2021

Clothed in white beauty, Iceland lives up to its name. Icy patches lead the roads to the sights, the cities and the landscape. There are two kinds of winter tourists in Iceland: those with spikes on their shoes and those…

Continue reading ➞ In the country that smells like rotten eggs and farts: A weekend away in Iceland
Johnny Bravo
FunnyReturning CharactersTravel

The soul of the lifeless: adventures in Gdańsk

Puzzle Pieces24 June, 202128 June, 2021

“The water’s not very clean,” I tell him while mentally visualising the semi-fluid soup of chemicals and goo that I just moments ago rejected for a dip. He looks at me, like he always does, challenged and ignited, and says…

Continue reading ➞ The soul of the lifeless: adventures in Gdańsk
Johnny Bravo
Me timeQuasi-philosophytop10Travel

Maybe I have rabies… or saving Se-bat-sian

Puzzle Pieces10 October, 20208 November, 2020

His English accent breaks somewhere between Italian and German. Easily over 80 years old, his hands tremble as he writes down the name of the church he thinks I should visit. In the footsteps of a pandemic, the economic disaster…

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God
FunnyReturning CharactersTravel

The Fantastic Four on a romantic (but not really) weekend away

Puzzle Pieces10 July, 202010 July, 2020

While holding on to the stressed-out kitten Pixel, Fire is in a calm yet somewhat high-pitched tone screaming google maps directions to Earth from her phone. In lack of a cat, Water is instead holding on to her car seat…

Continue reading ➞ The Fantastic Four on a romantic (but not really) weekend away
Earth, Fantastic Four, Fire, Water, Wind
Quasi-philosophyReturning CharactersTravel

At a cafe in Jodhpur, India

Puzzle Pieces18 December, 201919 December, 2019

The sun sets in a blaze of passionate orange that within minutes turns into the violent passion of purple. Me and Daffodil are in Jodhpur, India, and after one of those perfect days

Continue reading ➞ At a cafe in Jodhpur, India
Daffodil
Me timeReturning CharactersTravel

The Irish border backstop Frankendoodle

Puzzle Pieces27 October, 201927 October, 2019

I’m lulling forward in a bus between Dublin and Belfast. Behind the bus the sun is patiently calling it a day and in front grey rain clouds gather ominously on the sunset ombre. Taking a 24 hour break from Dublin,…

Continue reading ➞ The Irish border backstop Frankendoodle
Cheesecake
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The time I was mistaken for a prostitute in Dublin

Puzzle Pieces26 October, 20196 July, 2020

Yesterday evening I had a WTF?! experience of completely outrageous proportions. I was mistaken for a prostitute. Now, you probably thinking that I was wearing my usual miniskirts, high heels and maybe my oh-so-cool black hat (which would be no…

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Quasi-philosophyReturning CharactersTravel

Three lines to call for divine intervention

Puzzle Pieces20 October, 201921 October, 2019

If you let it, travel invites you to interesting meetings. Meetings that teach you something about other people, about the world and, more surprisingly, about yourself. My previous search for purpose and an smidgen of inner peace was long ago…

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Daffodil, God, Herbert

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  • About
  • Blog
    • Post Archive
    • Returning Characters
    • Slice of life
    • Quasi-philosophy
    • Something funny?
  • Author’s Pick!
  • Travel
    • Thoughts from travels
    • Post by location
  • Fucked-up Fiction
  • Lost Little Robots
  • Art Gallery