The metallic scales of the luggage belt slowly pass where I am standing, contract at the corners to form a triangle and finally escape my […]
Virtually rich, really broke
It’s been a while. And although a lot of things happened, the one thing that shook up my stay here in this already very alien […]
Unfamiliarly familiar uncomfortableness
So I am sick. The doctor says it should be just a sore throat, although it feels like a spiky alien hiding in my esophagus. […]
Cheap Bananas
I point at a bunch of bananas. It’s just six of them. The old man nods and puts the bunch into a plastic bag. Then […]
Like a dumb tourist
Permaculture is weird to explain. Its a concept of the 1970s, there was this guy Bill Mollison and people are still implementing it today – […]
Flushing down the Gods
Bang-bang go the bass drums. Snares crack like machine gun fire through the night. Echoes of chimes ring between each beat and a faint melody […]
Girls’ voices
The ball hits the ground and then the bushes. A few girls grin. Laxmi, one of the smallest – and boldest, laughs aloud. I was […]
Cook it, peel it, or forget it.
That’s my mantra these days. It is like a prayer I say each time I am looking for food, to ward off evil and bring […]
Travel means World
At least it does to me. To me it means a lot more, tough, too: Culture, Otherness, Wanderlust, Fear, Me, People, so many people, Passion, […]